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lucubrate

/ˈluː.kjə.bɹeɪt/

lucubrate verb: to work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.

Verb

lucubrate (third-person singular simple present lucubrates, present participle lucubrating, simple past and past participle lucubrated)

  1. (rare) To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.
    • Instead, as Oklahoma’s tenure committee lucubrated over Hill’s future, […]December 1991, K. Boo, “The organization woman”, in The Washington Monthly, volume 23, number 12, page 44
  2. To work or write like a scholar.
    • […] I shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon the same subject.1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261

lucubrate meaning in Urdu

lucubrate in Urdu

فاضلانہ مقالہ لکھنا

Synonyms of lucubrate

Forms of lucubrate

third-person singular presentlucubrates
present participlelucubrating
past participlelucubrated
pastlucubrated

Origin of lucubrate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin lūcubrātus, perfect passive participle of lūcubrō (“to work by candlelight”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lūx (“light”).

Words formed from lucubrate

Questions about lucubrate

What does lucubrate mean?
Lucubrate means to work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.
What is lucubrate in Urdu?
Lucubrate in Urdu is فاضلانہ مقالہ لکھنا. See Lucubrate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is lucubrate?
Lucubrate is a verb.
How do you pronounce lucubrate?
Lucubrate is pronounced /ˈluː.kjə.bɹeɪt/.
What is the past tense of lucubrate?
The past tense of lucubrate is lucubrated.

Words near lucubrate in the dictionary

  1. luctation
  2. luctations
  3. luctiferous
  4. Lucton
  5. luctual
  6. lucubrate
  7. lucubrated
  8. lucubrates
  9. lucubrating
  10. lucubration
  11. lucubrations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lucubrate (page history and authors); lucubrate (Urdu 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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