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nightwandering

nightwandering adjective: wandering at night; noctivagant.

Adjective

nightwandering (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Wandering at night; noctivagant.
    • And Phoebe the benign in her nightwandering chariot / Was trampling the midheaven.1961 [29–19 BCE], Virgil, translated by Patric Dickinson, Aeneid, London: Penguin Group, page 222
    • Who are the agyrtai and manteis mentioned by Plato? Whether we translate them as 'nightwandering wizards' or as 'itinerant diviners and magicians', they remain shadowy figures, working at the margins of society.1999, Valerie Flint, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, London: University of London Press, →ISBN, page 103

Origin of nightwandering

Compound of night + wandering.

Questions about nightwandering

What does nightwandering mean?
Nightwandering means wandering at night; noctivagant.
What part of speech is nightwandering?
Nightwandering is an adjective.

Words near nightwandering in the dictionary

  1. nighttime nappy
  2. nighttimes
  3. nightwalker
  4. nightwalkers
  5. nightwalking
  6. nightwandering
  7. nightward
  8. nightwards
  9. nightwatch
  10. nightwatcher
  11. nightwatchers

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