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nightly

/ˈnaɪtli/

nightly adjective: happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.

Adjective

nightly (not comparable)

  1. Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.
    • nightly dews
    • A cobweb spread above a blossom Is sufficient to protect It from nightly chill.1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews
  2. Performing, occurring, or taking place every night.
    • The dog demanded to go out for his nightly walk.
  3. Used in the night.

Adverb

nightly (not comparable)

  1. Every night.
    • He checks his email nightly.
    • It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'st the fearefull hollow of thine eare, / Nightly she sings on yond Pomgranet tree,c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Noun

nightly (plural nightlies)

  1. A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night.
    • Depending on how brave you are, you can even set it to update to the “bleeding edge nightlies” instead of just the point release nightlies if you want to really see the cutting edge of WordPress core development.2014, Adam Onishi, Pro WordPress Theme Development, Apress, →ISBN, page 349

nightly meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

nightly in Hindi

occurring every night
रात्रिक rātrik
every night
रात्रिक rātrik

nightly in Urdu

شبانہ

nightly in Bengali

রাত্রিকালীন, প্রতি রাতের, রাতে ঘটা

nightly in Malayalam

രാത്രിയിലെ, രാത്രിതോറുമുളള, രാത്രിയിൽ ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ട

Examples of nightly in a sentence

  • Our nightly computer backups include the archival of old e-mail messages.
  • By charging a resort fee, a hotel is able to advertise an arbitrarily lower nightly rate.
  • The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.

All 33 example sentences with nightly

Forms of nightly

pluralnightlies

Origin of nightly

From Middle English nyȝtly, nihtlich, nihtlic, from Old English nihtlīċ, nihtelīċ (“nocturnal, nightly, of the night, at night”), equivalent to night + -ly. Cognate with Scots nichtlie (“nightly”), West Frisian nachtlik (“nightly, nocturnal”), Dutch nachtelijk (“nightly, nocturnal”), German nächtlich (“nocturnal, nightly”), Danish natlig (“nightly”), Swedish nattlig (“nightly, nocturnal”).

From Middle English nyghtly, neghtly, from Old English *nihtlīċe (“nightly”), equivalent to night + -ly.

Words that rhyme with nightly

Questions about nightly

What does nightly mean?
Nightly means happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.
What is nightly in Hindi?
Nightly in Hindi is रात्रिक (rātrik). See Nightly meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nightly?
Nightly can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
How do you pronounce nightly?
Nightly is pronounced /ˈnaɪtli/.

Words near nightly in the dictionary

  1. nightlike
  2. nightline
  3. nightlines
  4. nightlives
  5. nightlong
  6. nightly
  7. nightman
  8. nightmarcher
  9. nightmarchers
  10. nightmare
  11. nightmare disorder

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nightly (page history and authors); nightly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nightly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nightly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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