- single word: person who loves the night or staying up at night
What a person would be called who loves the night or staying up at night? In both senses, like the young generation with their smartphones, and someone who just loves staying up late at night
- Is there a term for the period between midnight and sunrise?
0 Perhaps dawn is what you are looking for? It's the period after night, and just before sunrise, the beginning of morning twilight It's recognized by the presence of weak sunlight, when the sun is still below horizon There are also more technical definitions of dawn, available at Wikipedia
- Is the expression yesterday afternoon correct?
The show closes next Wednesday night The package arrived on Christmas morning are quite common For night, it is more customary to say last night rather than yesterday night, although we do say yesterday evening, tomorrow night, Saturday night, and so on When the day is itself a compound, I think this compact form is less common, however To say
- idioms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
To put somebody up: To let somebody stay at your home; to arrange for somebody to stay somewhere We can put you up for the night Why does "put somebody up" have that meaning? Where does the expre
- What is the category name to describe day, night, or dusk?
TimeOfDay: Day TimeOfDay: Night TimeOfDay: Dusk TimeOfDay: Dawn TimeOfDay: Night Day # (the recording spans both Day and Night) Is there another term to describe "time of day"? Edit: As per the comments, removed most of the specific constraints - question now focuses on the terminology
- nouns - Can nighttime be used instead of night-time? - English . . .
I forgot where but I saw the word "night-time" written like "nighttime" Now is that correct or accepted? Can it be written as a single word? I am specifically concerned about British usage I did
- Is the expression of an evening, of a morning, of a Saturday . . .
People will say: He usually comes round here about 8 o'clock of an evening, or 10 o'clock of a morning, or of a Saturday afternoon Is this standard English? I tend to associate it with Londoners
- Whats the difference between “by night” and “at night”?
The expression by night is typically used to contrast someone's nighttime activities to their daytime activities, especially when the nighttime activities are unusual or unexpected
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