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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. adverb Date: before 12th century on this present night or the night following this present day <will do it tonight> II. noun Date: 14th century the present night or the night following this present day

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tonight To*night", adv. [Prep. to + night] 1. On this present or coming night. 2. On the last night past. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tonight To*night", n. The present or the coming night; the night after the present day.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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 • Tonight is also a noun. ...tonight's flight to London.

Moby Thesaurus

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