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noctuaries

noctuaries is the plural of noctuary.

Meaning of noctuary

Noun

noctuary (plural noctuaries)

  1. A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal.
    • that ingenious gentleman, who promised me […] some extracts out of his noctuary1714 September 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, August 27, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 586; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a...

Questions about noctuaries

What is noctuaries the plural of?
Noctuaries is the plural of noctuary.

Words near noctuaries in the dictionary

  1. Nocton
  2. noctophobia
  3. noctovision
  4. noctovisor
  5. noctovisors
  6. noctuaries
  7. noctuary
  8. noctuid
  9. noctuidous
  10. noctuids
  11. noctuiform

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