nightly
/ˈnaɪtli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.
adj
adv
noun
A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night.
Example Sentences
- "nightly dews"
- "A cobweb spread above a blossom Is sufficient to protect It from nightly chill."
- "The dog demanded to go out for his nightly walk."
- "He checks his email nightly."
- "It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'st the fearefull hollow of thine eare, / Nightly she sings on yond Pomgranet tree,"
- "This tunnel assumed some measure of importance during the second world war, when it was used nightly as an air raid shelter for multiple unit electric trains which were propelled over the branch by a steam engine."
Etymology
From Middle English nyȝtly, nihtlich, nihtlic, from Old English nihtlīċ, nihtelīċ (“nocturnal, nightly, of the night, at night”), equivalent to night + -ly. Cognate with Scots nichtlie (“nightly”), West Frisian nachtlik (“nightly, nocturnal”), Dutch nachtelijk (“nightly, nocturnal”), German nächtlich (“nocturnal, nightly”), Danish natlig (“nightly”), Swedish nattlig (“nightly, nocturnal”).