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nightcaps

nightcaps is the plural of nightcap.

nightcaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nightcap.

Meaning of nightcap

Noun

nightcap (plural nightcaps)

  1. A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread.
    • Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.
  2. A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic.
    • I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.
  3. (broadly, figuratively) Something that a person reads or listens to before bed.
    • "[…] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […]"1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist
  4. (US) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.
  5. (historical) A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.

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Proper noun capitalized: Nightcaps

Nightcaps

  1. A coal-mining settlement in western Southland, New Zealand.

Questions about nightcaps

What does nightcaps mean?
Nightcaps means a coal-mining settlement in western Southland, New Zealand.
What is nightcaps the plural of?
Nightcaps is the plural of nightcap.
What part of speech is nightcaps?
Nightcaps is a proper noun.

Words near nightcaps in the dictionary

  1. nightbreezes
  2. nightcap
  3. nightcap oak
  4. nightcapped
  5. nightcapping
  6. nightcaps
  7. nightcare
  8. nightcart
  9. nightcarts
  10. nightchurr
  11. nightchurrs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nightcaps (page history and authors); Nightcaps (page history and authors); nightcap (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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