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Definition of Nightlong
1. Adjective. Lasting, open, or operating through the whole night. "An overnight trip"
Definition of Nightlong
1. a. Lasting all night.
Definition of Nightlong
1. Adjective. Lasting a night (i.e. the duration of one night); lasting all night. ¹
2. Adverb. Through the night. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nightlong
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightlong
Literary usage of Nightlong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Was each where, nightlong, fear of impious death ; Falls new strange dread, on
drowsy watching hearts! ..."
2. The Friends' Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Tunes for the Public Worship by Society of Friends (1908)
"... joy-ful rise To pay thy morn-ing sac- ri - fice. Im - prove thy tal - ent with
due care, For the great day thy - self pre-pare. Who all nightlong, un ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"nightlong on black print-branches ... beech-tree Gazes in this whiteness: nightlong
could I. Here may life on death or death on life be painted. ..."
4. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"nightlong on black print-branches our beech-tree Gazes in this whiteness: nightlong
could I. Here may life on death or death on life be painted. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1878)
"nightlong on black print-branches our beech-tree Gazes in this whiteness :
nightlong could I. Here may life on death or death on life be painted. ..."
6. English Poetry: In Three Volumes ; with Introduction and Notes (1910)
"... nightlong on black print-branches our beech-tree Gazes in this whiteness:
nightlong could I. Here may life on death or death on life be painted. ..."
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