noctivagant
/nɑkˈtɪvəɡənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering.
noun
One who goes walking by night.
Example Sentences
- "[…] I therefore think, Sarah, that the incommensurability of the crime with the effect, completely warrants the supersaliency of this noctivagant delinquent."
- ""Over the city, the suburb, the slum / He rambled from pillar to post, / And backward and forward, observant, though dumb, / As a fleetly noctivagant ghost.""
- "Unhappily, we lost the big fellow, Smirke, to noctivagant predators some days back […]"
- ""Not merely nocturnal but noctivagant, a nightwalker, a prowler, a nomad of the midnight streets, attempting to abolish the distinction between the light that comes from outside and the sort that shines within.""
Etymology
From Late Latin noctivagans, from noctivagare, from Latin nocti- (“night”) + participle form of vagari (“to wander”).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /nɑkˈtɪvəɡənt/
- British English: /nɒkˈtɪvəɡənt/