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all-night

UK/ˌɔːlˈnaɪt//ˌɔlˈnaɪt/

all-night adjective: lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it).

Adjective

all-night (not comparable)

  1. Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it)
    • an all-night party
    • Spite of brown-stone trimmings, plate-glass and mosaic vestibule floors, the water does not rise in summer to the second story, while the beer flows unchecked to the all-night picnics on the roof.1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 19

all-night meaning in Tamil and Malay

all-night in Tamil

இரவு முழுதும் நிலவுகிற

all-night in Malay

lasting throughout the whole night
semalaman

Examples of all-night in a sentence

  • The former G.E.R. all-night service between Liverpool Street and Chingford, at hourly intervals, is revived.1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 20:
  • Sherpas from the European Union and 19 countries worked through the week to salvage a meaningful joint statement, culminating in an all-night session on Friday.2018 December 1, Julian Borger, “G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms”, in The Guardian, London...

Forms of all-night

alternative form (nonstandard, informal)all-nite

Origin of all-night

From all- + night.

Words formed from all-night

Words that rhyme with all-night

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Questions about all-night

What does all-night mean?
All-night means lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it).
What is all-night in Tamil?
All-night in Tamil is இரவு முழுதும் நிலவுகிற. See All-night meaning in Tamil.
How do you use all-night in a sentence?
The former G.E.R. all-night service between Liverpool Street and Chingford, at hourly intervals, is revived.
What part of speech is all-night?
All-night is an adjective.
How do you pronounce all-night?
All-night is pronounced /ˌɔlˈnaɪt/ (US).

Words near all-night in the dictionary

  1. All-Maker
  2. all-male
  3. all-mighty
  4. all-natural
  5. all-new
  6. all-night
  7. all-night-man
  8. all-night-men
  9. all-nighter
  10. all-nighters
  11. all-nite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: all-night (page history and authors); all-night (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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