all-night

Examples

• All

• The parade was an all-night affair, and more than forty floats took part.

  Academic text (1998)

• Somehow, she and I had fun driving around looking for an all-night dentist.

  Fiction book (1997)

• It's supposed to pour all night.

  The Skeleton Key (2005)

• Looks like an all-night job to me.

  The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

• A group of men, mostly drug dealers, hang out at an all-night coffee shop.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Then we went to an all-night drugstore and bought the lipstick to match.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The pink moon shone on the water; all night the Pibar roved.

  Fiction book (1993)

• General Masami Shinzo, in charge of Japan's defense, has kept the emergency council in all-night session.

  King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)

• Harry Stemkowsky's rattling wheelchair finally came to a halt in front of the all-night Walgreens Drugstore.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The underground raves are described as all-night and/or two-day-long events that rely on alternative modes of advertisement.

  Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

O

overnight

vsall-night

100 2.2

Happening or used during the whole night

is the hyphenated written form rather than the single word

N

nightlong

vsall-night

3.9

Lasting for the whole night

is the hyphenated written form used instead

Antonyms

D

daytime

131 1.0

The time when the sun is up

How Long

around-the-clock

8 3.2

all-night

35 3.4

overnight

195 1.2

late-night

84 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology