tonight
n 1: the present or immediately coming night
adv 1: during the night of the present day; "drop by tonight"
[syn: tonight, this evening, this night]
tonight
O.E. toniht "tomorrow night" (Anglo-Saxon day began at sunset), from to
"at, on" (see to) + niht (see night). Written as two words until 18c.,
after which it was to-night until early 20c.
tonight I. adverbDate: before 12th century on this present night or the night following
this present day <will do it tonight>
II. nounDate: 14th century
the present night or the night following this present day
tonight adv. & n. --adv. on the present or approaching evening or night. --n. the evening or night of the present day. Etymology: TO + NIGHT: cf. TODAY
tonight
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.Tonight is used to refer to the evening of today or the night that follows today.
I'm at home tonight...Tonight, I think he proved to everybody what a great player he was...There they will stay until 11 o'clock tonight.ADV: ADV with cl, n ADV
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Tonight is also a noun.
...tonight's flight to London.N-UNCOUNT
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "tonight":
as of now, as things are, at present, at this juncture,
at this moment, at this point, at this time, but now, even now,
for the nonce, for this occasion, here, here and now, hereat,
hic et nunc, in our time, in these days, just now, now, nowadays,
on the spot, this day, this night, today
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