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opening nights

opening nights is the plural of opening night.

Meaning of opening night

Noun

opening night (plural opening nights)

  1. The first night, evening, or day of a spectacle or show.
    • I’m writing in pure hyperbole. I know this. I just don’t know another way to talk about this movie. Watching Fury Road in the theater on opening night, I worried that I was being obnoxious, gleefully cackling with glee and, more than once, literally throwing my hands up in disbelief.2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club
  2. The first event in a new venue.

Questions about opening nights

What is opening nights the plural of?
Opening nights is the plural of opening night.

Words near opening nights in the dictionary

  1. opening hours
  2. opening its doors
  3. opening move
  4. opening moves
  5. opening night
  6. opening nights
  7. opening of an envelope
  8. opening one's big mouth
  9. opening one's bowels
  10. opening one's heart
  11. opening one's legs

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