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night air

night air noun: a miasma, or noxious atmosphere.

Noun

night air (countable and uncountable, plural night airs)

  1. (obsolete) A miasma, or noxious atmosphere.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see night, air.
    • The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53

Forms of night air

pluralnight airs

Questions about night air

What does night air mean?
Night air means a miasma, or noxious atmosphere.
What part of speech is night air?
Night air is a noun.
What is the plural of night air?
The plural of night air is night airs.

Words near night air in the dictionary

  1. nighsome
  2. night
  3. night adder
  4. night adders
  5. night after night
  6. night air
  7. night airs
  8. night and day
  9. night auditor
  10. night auditors
  11. night bird

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