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nightbreeze

nightbreeze noun: breeze during the night.

Noun

nightbreeze (plural nightbreezes)

  1. Breeze during the night.
    • Grainlike flecks of ice danced in the nightbreeze as they moved in the solemn dark, turning right on the next street and walking several more blocks until they came to the house on the corner of Pyrtania and Second.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 40, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 196

Forms of nightbreeze

pluralnightbreezes

Origin of nightbreeze

From night + breeze.

Questions about nightbreeze

What does nightbreeze mean?
Nightbreeze means breeze during the night.
What part of speech is nightbreeze?
Nightbreeze is a noun.
What is the plural of nightbreeze?
The plural of nightbreeze is nightbreezes.

Words near nightbreeze in the dictionary

  1. nightbird
  2. nightbirds
  3. nightblind
  4. nightblindness
  5. nightbreak
  6. nightbreeze
  7. nightbreezes
  8. nightcap
  9. nightcap oak
  10. nightcapped
  11. nightcapping

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