Nocturnal

Word NOCTURNAL
Character 9
Hyphenation noc tur nal
Pronunciations /nɒkˈtɜː(ɹ)nəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Nocturnal"

What do we mean by nocturnal?

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night. adjective

Opening at night. Used of flowers. adjective

Most active at night. adjective

Of or pertaining to the night; belonging to the night; used, done, or occurring at night: as, nocturnal cold; a nocturnal visit: opposed to diurnal.

Of or pertaining to a nocturn.

In zoology, active by night: as, nocturnal lepidopter.

Syn. 1 and See nightly.

An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the stars, etc., at sea. noun

Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; ; -- opposed to diurnal. adjective

Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; ; -- of animals. adjective

Primarily active during the night. adjective

Taking place at night. adjective

Belonging to or active during the night adjective

Of or relating to or occurring in the night adjective

A person or creature that is active at night.

A device for telling the time at night, rather like a sundial but read according to the stars.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Nocturnal

The word "nocturnal" in example sentences

She'd been researching what she called "nocturnal pressing spirit attacks," or what scientific literature called sleep paralysis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Neighbors ... said they wouldn't rest until the large black snake, which appears to be nocturnal, is no longer free. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“The use of unguents and eye-powders and the dust of the road and the undesigned swallowing of saliva and the emission of seed in nocturnal pollution or at the sight of a strange woman and blooding and cupping; none of these things vitiates the fast.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Madame Delmare had all the superstitions of a nervous, sickly Creole; certain nocturnal sounds, certain phases of the moon were to her unfailing presages of specific events, of impending misfortunes, and the night spoke to that dreamy, melancholy creature a language full of mysteries and phantoms which she alone could understand and translate according to her fears and her sufferings. ❋ Unknown (1900)

Both Sir Heinz Schorlin and Jungfrau Elizabeth Ortlieb kept their word and joined each other here -- to their extreme amazement, I should suppose, as to my knowledge they never met before -- to receive me, and thus had an interview which, however loudly they may contradict it, I call a nocturnal meeting. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

Elizabeth Ortlieb kept their word and joined each other here -- to their extreme amazement, I should suppose, as to my knowledge they never met before -- to receive me, and thus had an interview which, however loudly they may contradict it, I call a nocturnal meeting. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

Ortlieb kept their word and joined each other here -- to their extreme amazement, I should suppose, as to my knowledge they never met before -- to receive me, and thus had an interview which, however loudly they may contradict it, I call a nocturnal meeting. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

It was not just the pain in his arthritic knees, which he ruefully referred to as his nocturnal visitor, that kept Fr. ❋ Mary Higgins Clark (2011)

A little more than two weeks ago, after 20 years of keeping dozens of hives on his nearly four acres on Plain Road, Harp suffered the first of what apiarists call a nocturnal "bear hit." ❋ Unknown (2010)

He calls his nocturnal Internet friends the Black Road. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As we have seen, a decline in what I have called nocturnal literacy -- the ability to recognize the complex interaction of unconscious or invisible activities, from sleep and anxiety to offshore labour and foreign trade -- has historically accompanied westernization. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I recalled the nocturnal raid on the funeral parlor north of LA. ❋ Patterson, James (2001)

The bat is what is called a nocturnal animal, because it cannot bear the strong light of day, and flies about at night in search of its food. ❋ Caroline Pridham (N/A)

He remembered that Dom Claude alone possessed a key of the stair-case leading to the cell; he recalled his nocturnal attempts upon Esmeralda, the first of which he Quasimodo, had assisted, the second prevented. ❋ Unknown (1917)

-- Seminal emissions during sleep, usually accompanied by erotic dreams, are known as nocturnal pollutions or emissions, and are often called _spermatorrhoea_, though there is some disagreement respecting the use of the latter term. ❋ John Harvey Kellogg (1897)

-- Seminal emissions during sleep, usually accompanied by erotic dreams, are known as nocturnal pollutions or emissions, and are often called spermatorrhoea, though there is some disagreement respecting the use of the latter term. ❋ Unknown (1877)

But it became known as a nocturnal assaulter after a series of ultimately unrelated murders of elderly women arose in a southern area populated by the majority Sinhalese people. ❋ Unknown (2011)

With so-called nocturnal dialysis, they are hooked up to a machine six nights a week, for about seven hours a stretch while they sleep. ❋ ALICIA CHANG (2011)

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