nightful

nightful noun: all that occurs or is done during a single night.

Noun

nightful (plural nightfuls or nightsful)

All that occurs or is done during a single night.
- Interpreting dreams was interpreting dreamers, finding what function was performed for the dreamer by specific dreams, or by nightsful of dreams, or by a dream series.1970, Harmon Hartzell Bro, Dreams in the Life of Prayer: The Approach of Edgar Cayce, page 43
- No deer, of course. But summer nightfuls of a raccoon banging the lid of Mr. Gallagher's in-ground garbage can, ker-blam ker-blam ker- blam.1993, Suze Craig, Tails & Tales: Small Farming in New England, page 91
As much as is produced or consumed throughout an entire night.
- And now, in March, when back home in Iowa thoughts of plowing were making folks restless, and spring was only a matter of a morning's rain or shine (either would bring it), snow had fallen again—a whole nightful of it.1934, The North American Review, page 31
- Some people are affected more by two glasses of beer than others by a nightful of Scotch and sodas.1946, Larry Freeman, Edith Mendel Stern, Mastering Your Nerves: How to Relax Through Action, page 208

nightful (comparative more nightful, superlative most nightful)

Pertaining to the night; occurring at night, found at night, resulting from the night, night-like, etc.
- Fatigue, and want of strength from recent sickness: The ague's touch, that now recurs beneath These nightful dews.1847, Horatio Hubbell, Arnold: Or, The Treason of West Point, page 42
- O nightful men, we come and are bearing gifts For the fallen tribes, a nationality More gracious than your counterfeited kings, Or the five-fold unity of your long canoes.1947, Landfall - Volume 1, page 259

When the evening comes, God's face then is a nightful of stars that lay to rest on the nearby tadpole water.2001, MaComère - Volume 4, page 25:
With his borrowed orderly's jacket, his work boots, grease-stained jeans and a nightful of whiskers, he could guess what he looked like in her eyes.1990, Jennifer Greene, Slow Dance, page 38:
When his mind was filled to its unhappy capacity, one cheerless, nightful trend rose to the top: Look for a place to sleep.1974, Jerome David Salinger, The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J.D. Salinger:
I could have walked away from myself that nightful day: itching, retching, twitching; pain.2000, Máirín Diamond, The testimony of the bones, page 75:

From night + -ful.

What does nightful mean?: Nightful means all that occurs or is done during a single night.
How do you use nightful in a sentence?: When the evening comes, God's face then is a nightful of stars that lay to rest on the nearby tadpole water.
What part of speech is nightful?: Nightful can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of nightful?: The plural of nightful is nightfuls.

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