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lychnobite

lychnobite noun: a person who works or labors at night and sleeps during the day.

Noun

lychnobite (plural lychnobites)

  1. (rare) A person who works or labors at night and sleeps during the day.
    • Before the enfeebled of the dull-eyed lychnobite of the press could succumb to its influence, the cheerful voice of the magician awoke him.1887 November 5, Observer Journal (Dunkirk, New York)
    • […] he has listened as a pretended accomplice while sinister lychnobites laid plans over a low back bar-room table for outlaw depredations involving theft and manslaughter.1924, John Chipman Farrar, The Literary Spotlight, page 192

Forms of lychnobite

plurallychnobites

Origin of lychnobite

From Ancient Greek λυχνόβιος (lukhnóbios, “living by lamplight”), from λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”) + βίος (bíos, “life”); ending analogical to cenobite.

Questions about lychnobite

What does lychnobite mean?
Lychnobite means a person who works or labors at night and sleeps during the day.
What part of speech is lychnobite?
Lychnobite is a noun.
What is the plural of lychnobite?
The plural of lychnobite is lychnobites.

Words near lychnobite in the dictionary

  1. lychgates
  2. Lychnapsia
  3. lychnic
  4. lychnis
  5. lychnises
  6. lychnobite
  7. lychnobites
  8. lychnomancy
  9. lychnoscope
  10. lychnoscopes
  11. lychnoscopic

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