all night
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- idiom
:
toda la noche
- We'll all take turns keeping watch all night.
- stay up all night
- be awake all night
- all night long
But don't stay up all night watching YouTube videos.
- But don't stay up all night watching YouTube videos.
- So you can drink those all night and not be drunk.
- Oh how it didn't rain all night, right?
- Well, I could talk to you all night, but I have to be.
- I'm, I'm up all night, didn't sleep for a month.
- Hey, puppy, we've been sleeping out here all night, you know, no duerme.
- Don't make me stand all night alone.
- They are up all night polishing their deck.
- Like you play video games all night and you do that by yourself.
Examples
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I could sit here all night with you, buddy.
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We kept the campfire burning and told stories all night long.
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Just let it run all night, OK?
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So if you just stand there like that all night, that would be lovely.
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Oh, I can do this all night.
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We're gonna be right in the middle of this storm system all night.
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Her kitchen lights burned all night long, and the next morning her car was gone.
Fiction book (1990) -
I remember how exhausted I was, having been up all night writing and then observing.
Academic text (1994) -
Well, we can't stay here all night.
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We could have watched the sky all night, but sleep finally beckoned us.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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During the whole night
Lasting for the whole night
Antonyms
How Long
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'for the entire duration of the night' is directly compositional from 'all' (the whole/entire) + 'night' (the nightly interval), so the sense is immediately derivable from the constituents. This determiner + temporal noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
All night paints a clear picture: someone by a lamp staying awake and active from evening until morning. So all night means 'the whole night'.