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night birds

night birds is the plural of night bird.

Meaning of night bird

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
  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

Questions about night birds

What is night birds the plural of?
Night birds is the plural of night bird.

Words near night birds in the dictionary

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

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