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Definition of Nighthawk
1. Noun. A person who likes to be active late at night.
2. Noun. Mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker.
Generic synonyms: Caprimulgid, Goatsucker, Nightjar
Group relationships: Chordeiles, Genus Chordeiles
Definition of Nighthawk
1. Noun. A New World nightjar. ¹
2. Noun. A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the night and the early morning hours. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nighthawk
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nighthawk
Literary usage of Nighthawk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds of Village and Field: A Bird Book for Beginners by Florence Merriam Bailey (1898)
"Like the Whip-poor-will, the nighthawk is crepuscular, flying mainly in the dusky
... The two birds look much alike, but the nighthawk has a white throat ..."
2. Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-life in Plain English for Beginners by Mabel Osgood Wright (1897)
"I will show you a nighthawk in my cabinet, and you will see for yourselves ...
The nighthawk Mottled black and rusty above. Barred on the under parts with ..."
3. A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America by Thomas Nuttall (1896)
"nighthawk. GOATSUCKER. BULL BAT. CHORDEILES VIRGINIANUS. CHAR. Male: above, dull
black mottled with brown and gray; wings brown, a patch of white on five ..."
4. Report by Ontario Dept. of Mines (1899)
"Basin of nighthawk Lake. The whole party, 20 in number, left Hailey- bury at the
head of lake Temiscaming on Reaching May 21. ..."
5. The Second Book of Birds: Bird Families by Harriet (Mann) Miller, Olive Thorne Miller (1901)
"The mother nighthawk, like the whip-poor- will, makes no nest. She chooses a
sunny spot in a pasture or on a hillside to put her eggs. ..."
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