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Definition of Nightly
1. Adverb. At the end of each day. "She checks on her roses nightly"
2. Adjective. Happening every night. "Nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m."
Definition of Nightly
1. a. Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils.
2. adv. At night; every night.
Definition of Nightly
1. Adjective. Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal. ¹
2. Adjective. Performing, occurring, or taking place every night. ¹
3. Adjective. Used in the night. ¹
4. Adverb. Every night. ¹
5. Noun. (computing) A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nightly
1. every night; at night [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightly
Literary usage of Nightly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Or, by the reaper's nightly beam, The Petition of Br. Water. An' ay on Sundays
duly, nightly. I on the questions targe them tightly ; . . The Inventory. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1752)
"... by appoint:ng the train'd bands of this city to do a nightly duty. By a member
of the hon. artillery company. Svo. i s. Griffiths. XII. ..."
3. Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas (1878)
"A nightly PATROU IN ten minutes Mazarin and his, party were traversing the street "
Les Bons Enfans," behind the theatre built by Richelieu expressly for ..."
4. The Seasons by James Thomson, Partick Murdoch (1847)
"... y -ab the nightly thief; distant water-fall nd, with the hasty tread --sounding
plain e full ethereal round, •csing to the view, keen ; and, ..."
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