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Nightline

Nightline

304 4.8
A late-night TV show with news, interviews, and discussion
  • proper noun
  • Literature
translation icon : Nightline
  • Nightline devoted its 21 May broadcast to the Mitchell commission report.
  • Nightline on ABC
  • Nightline on ABC News

Examples

  • The Nightline broadcast was reported by four ABC News correspondents.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Before founding Phillips Media Relations in 2004, Brad worked as a journalist with ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel.

    Blog text (31)

  • This is ABC News Nightline.

    Zappa (2020)

  • MORGAN: On December 10th, 2007, John confirmed the CIA's routine use of waterboarding on the news program, Nightline.

    Terroir (2023)

  • Tonight on ABC's Nightline...

    The Stuff (1985)

  • In 2006, months before going on air, Al Jazeera English hired Dave Marash, a former anchor for NBC Nightline.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Back to the '90s: Barack Obama was on ABC's "Nightline" the other night in a nostalgic mood.

    Blog text (12)

  • American conservatives (e.g., William Kristol on Nightline, 5 March 2003) still talk about "democratizing" Arab nations, confident they know what is right for others.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The Palo Alto Humanist Community was featured in Time magazine in November 2007, and in March 2008, ABC's Nightline did a segment of "Faith Matters" on the group and their Sunday school.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Tonight on ABC's Nightline, we will discuss the latest developments in healthcare.

Compounds

nightline
  • UK
4 3.3

A bus or train service that runs at night

nightline
  • UK
4.7

A phone service that gives emotional support at night

Surface Forms

Nightline main

Morphology

Nightline = night + line (semi-transparent) = night + line

Formed by compounding 'night' + 'line' so the components suggest a late-night connection, but the specific meaning as a TV program title (late-night news) is conventional and not fully predictable.

Etymology

Nightline joins night ('the dark part of the day') and line ('a series' or 'a broadcast'). It was made as a title to mean a 'line' of news shown at night, so Nightline is a name for a late-night news show that brings news, interviews, and analysis together.