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night bird

night bird noun: a bird that is active in the night; a nocturnal bird.

night bird: a bird that is active in the night; a nocturnal bird
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Noun

night bird (plural night birds)

  1. A bird that is active in the night; a nocturnal bird.
    • Some night-bird, belike, or a sea-gull squalling below the headland.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 39
    • Far out in the scrubs a solitary nightbird was calling.2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 290
  2. (figuratively) A human denizen of night.
    • Bradley assenting, went with him into an early public-house, haunted by unsavoury smells of musty hay and stale straw, where returning carts, farmers' men, gaunt dogs, fowls of a beery breed, and certain human night-birds fluttering home to roost, were solacing themselves after their several...1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC

Forms of night bird

pluralnight birds
alternative formnightbird

Questions about night bird

What does night bird mean?
Night bird means a bird that is active in the night; a nocturnal bird.
What part of speech is night bird?
Night bird is a noun.
What is the plural of night bird?
The plural of night bird is night birds.

Words near night bird in the dictionary

  1. night air
  2. night airs
  3. night and day
  4. night auditor
  5. night auditors
  6. night bird
  7. night birds
  8. night biter
  9. night biters
  10. night blind
  11. night blindness

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