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[tuh-nahyt]

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noun

this present or coming night; the night of this present day.

adverb

on this present night; on the night of this present day.

Obsolete. during last night.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English to night, Old English tō niht. See to, night

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But the pro-choice, pro-pot, pro-gay-rights candidate will be there tonight.

Winter officially begins late tonight and this winter solstice will be a rare event.

Be sure to share that little nugget of wisdom at the pub tonight.

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But the pro-choice, pro-pot, pro-gay-rights candidate will be there tonight.

Winter officially begins late tonight and this winter solstice will be a rare event.

Be sure to share that little nugget of wisdom at the pub tonight.

Serve it tonight in a warming stew or a quick stir-fry.

To catch the best view of a prolific meteor shower, scrap your plans tonight and get to bed for an early morning tomorrow.

Even an adequate performance tonight would buoy his campaign.

Tonight there will be a moment in human history that will never come again.

His language and tone tonight were combative, at times hectoring.

It happened a bunch of times in a row tonight in my doctoral seminar.

Across the rich world tonight a small army of worthy householders will pick through their.

Should they allow you to freely watch youtube tonight.

Try one of these low-fuss, low-fat recipes for dinner tonight.

I'll be writing an exam later tonight after a university student group meeting.

For my money the real surprise tonight were the questions: sharp, incisive and occasionally tough.

Tonight follow the development of twins, triplets and a set of identical quads within the womb.

Its no different from a human thinking about having chicken tonight instead of pork.

The data generated tonight will help them model the myriad pathways that infrasound waves take as they move through the sky.

Nobody will be wishing harder tonight that the polls are mistaken.

Something new is about to pop-up, maybe not tonight or tomorrow, but maybe someday.

The vigilante behind the headlights apparently decides he's not going to be a hero tonight.

He handled a public meeting tonight pretty well, and he had the crowd really going at some points.

Discovery has several landing opportunities later tonight.

DC tonight for a debate on national security and foreign policy.

It was wrong, and it deserves to be ignored tonight.

They will be listening tonight and hoping for a better day.

We have more important issues to deal with than what cell phone is the coolest, what girl is going to go out with me tonight.

If you have a small telescope, go out and see both giant planets tonight and for the next several nights.

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tonight (təˈnaɪt)

—n
1.	the night or evening of this present day

—*adv*
2.	in or during the night or evening of this day
3.	archaic last night

[Old English tōniht, from to¹ (at) + night]

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Word Origin & History

tonight

O.E. toniht "tomorrow night" (Anglo-Saxon day began at sunset), from to "at, on" (see to) + niht (see night). Written as two words until 18c., after which it was to-night until early 20c.

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