all-night
See also: all night
English
Alternative forms
- all-nite (informal, nonstandard)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: ôl'nītʹ, IPA(key): /ˌɔlˈnaɪt/
Audio (US): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôl'nītʹ, IPA(key): /ˌɔːlˈnaɪt/
- Rhymes: -aɪt
Adjective
- Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it)
- Coordinate term: all-day
- an all-night party
- 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 19:
- Spite of brown-stone trimmings, plate-glass and mosaic vestibule floors, the water does not rise in summer to the second story, while the beer flows unchecked to the all-night picnics on the roof.
- 1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 20:
- The former G.E.R. all-night service between Liverpool Street and Chingford, at hourly intervals, is revived.
- 2018 December 1, Julian Borger, “G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms”, in The Guardian[1], London, United Kingdom, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 April 2019:
- Sherpas from the European Union and 19 countries worked through the week to salvage a meaningful joint statement, culminating in an all-night session on Friday.
Derived terms
Related terms
- all night (adverb)
Translations
lasting throughout the whole night
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