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to-night

to-night adverb: dated spelling of tonight.

Adverb

to-night (not comparable)

  1. Dated spelling of tonight.
    • Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think!1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 6

Noun

to-night (usually uncountable, plural to-nights)

  1. (usually) Dated spelling of tonight.

Forms of to-night

pluralto-nights

Origin of to-night

From to- + night.

Questions about to-night

What does to-night mean?
To-night means dated spelling of tonight.
What part of speech is to-night?
To-night can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near to-night in the dictionary

  1. to-morrows
  2. to-name
  3. to-named
  4. to-names
  5. to-naming
  6. to-night
  7. to-nights
  8. to-nite
  9. to-nites
  10. to-oneself
  11. To-ong Pardo

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