night-stalker
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A monster or other malevolent figure that moves about at night; a shadow-stalker.
noun
A person who is habitually abroad at night, especially in order to conduct illegal business.
Example Sentences
- "“Thou wilt have no need to bury me, for if I get my death he will have eaten me all dashed with blood, he will bear away my gory corpse, he will taste me; the night-stalker will devour me without mercy.”"
- "[S]he accordingly proceeded with unrelaxed rapidity, startling the deer who came out into the open plots to browze, or scaring their lurking enemy the night-stalker, who, with his toils and engines, concealed himself in the adjoining bushes, that he might ensnare and carry off the fattest of the herd."
- "“You can't conceive what he fancies. It seems, according to his account, that you are a night-stalker.”"