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nights

[ nahyts ]

adverb

  1. at or during the night regularly or frequently:

    He worked during the day and wrote nights.



nights

/ Բɪٲ /

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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The Bobcats have their own reasons for turning up multiple nights and can debate the finer points of, say, the phrasing and delivery of individual lines of songs from night to night.

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DJ Annie Mac explains why she set up club nights that don't go on all night.

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As tensions spiral, India has alleged firing by Pakistan along the Line of Control, the de facto border between the two countries, for four nights in a row.

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The most serious incidents took place over the course of five nights earlier this month, with vehicles being set alight and two prisons being targeted by gunfire in what Darmanin described as "terrorist attacks".

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Although the bathrooms are divided by gender — and marked with Basquiat-style dinosaur imagery — on the nights when Simon Says takes over the Spotlight, those designations are ignored, and the toilets become unisex.

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