What does nightly mean?
Definitions for nightly
ˈnaɪt linight·ly
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word nightly.
Princeton's WordNet
nightlyadverb
happening every night
"nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m."
nightly, every nightadverb
at the end of each day
"she checks on her roses nightly"
Wiktionary
nightlynoun
A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night.
nightlyadverb
Every night.
He checks his email nightly.
nightlyadjective
Occurring every night.
The dog demanded to go out for his nightly walk.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Nightlyadjective
Done by night; acting by night; happening by night.
Etymology: from night.
May the stars and shining moon attend
Your nightly sports, as you vouchsafe to tell
What nymphs they were who mortal forms excel. Dryd.Soon as the flocks shook off the nightly dews,
Two swains, whom love kept wakeful and the muse,
Pour’d o’er the whit’ning vale their fleecy care. Alexander Pope.Nightlyadverb
Etymology: from night.
Thee, Sion! and the flow’ry brooks beneath,
That wash thy hallow’d feet, and warbling flow,
Nightly I visit. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii.Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listning earth
Repeats the story of her birth. Joseph Addison, Spectator.Let all things suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of those terrible dreams
That shake us nightly. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.
ChatGPT
nightly
Nightly refers to something that occurs or is done every night, or during the course of the night. It can be related to routine activities, tasks, rituals or phenomena that consistently take place after sunset and before sunrise.
Webster Dictionary
Nightlyadjective
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
Nightlyadverb
at night; every night
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of nightly in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of nightly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of nightly in a Sentence
He does so much for our team, he does so much for us on a nightly basis that the least we can do is help him out as much as we can. It might not be that important to him, but it sure is important to us for him to get to that point.
And the troop deployment was the lead across all the network nightly newscasts on Thursday evening. ABC's David Muir : on the groundA small number of correspondents for Western news outlets are in Afghanistan and are giving voice to the citizens there. For example, CNN's chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward filed a report from Kandahar last weekend. Flash forward a few days, and she says.
If you look back in the last year, there was probably a major sinkhole in every city, at least once a week somewhere in North America or around the world that's on the nightly news, and we're one more.
Every mosque all over the country has nightly Ramadan activities, so they're vulnerable.
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
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