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View synonyms for nights

nights

[ nahyts ]

adverb

  1. at or during the night regularly or frequently:

    He worked during the day and wrote nights.



nights

/ naɪts /

adverb

  1. informal.
    at night, esp regularly

    he works nights

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nights1

before 900; Middle English nightes, Old English nihtes. See night, -s 1
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Example Sentences

After two nights in detention, he was scheduled to be deported back to Turkey on Monday.

That is how we did the Talladega Nights and Stepbrothers deals.

For nearly a decade on Comedy Central, four nights a week, a late night talk show host told a story.

I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.

I worked a lot of 11-7 shifts, and so had to stay awake, although most of the nights other people slept.

Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.

These strange things that Alf has been trying to teach me during the long nights I have learned—I understand.

For the first time for 18 days and nights it has been found possible to withdraw the 29th Division from the fire fight.

There were no more sleepless nights, fearing an attack from the dreaded rebel or the volunteer.

She was ill, though, when they telegraphed for me; her life for three days and nights hanging on a shred.

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