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night rider

night rider is the alternative form of nightrider.

Meaning of nightrider

Noun

nightrider (plural nightriders)

  1. (US, historical) A member of a vigilante group that carried out nighttime raids.
  2. (US, capitalized, historical, often) A member of the Ku Klux Klan, especially during the Reconstruction Era.
    Synonyms:
    whitecapper
  3. A fairy chess piece which moves in the direction of the knight any number of times.

Forms of night rider

pluralnight riders

Questions about night rider

What is night rider the alternative form of?
Night rider is the alternative form of nightrider.

Words near night rider in the dictionary

  1. night parrot
  2. night parrots
  3. night people
  4. night person
  5. night piece
  6. night rider
  7. night riders
  8. night safe
  9. night safes
  10. night school
  11. night schools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: night rider (page history and authors); nightrider (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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