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all-night en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• ôl'nītʹ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˌɔːlˈnaɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌɔlˈnaɪt/ (General-American)
• ôl'nītʹ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Middle English all- English all- Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Germanic *nahts Proto-West Germanic *naht Proto-West Germanic *nahti Old English niht Middle English nyght English night English all-night From all- + night.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it)
   • an all-night party
   • Sherpas from the European Union and 19 countries worked through the week to salvage a meaningful joint statement, culminating in an all-night session on Friday. 2018 December 1, Julian Borger, “G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms”, in The Guardian, London, United Kingdom, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2019:
   • The former G.E.R. all-night service between Liverpool Street and Chingford, at hourly intervals, is revived. 1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 20:
   • Spite of brown-stone trimmings, plate-glass and mosaic vestibule floors, the water does not rise in summer to the second story, while the beer flows unchecked to the all-night picnics on the roof. 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 19:

Forms

Coordinates

all-day

Deriveds

all-night-man · all-nighter

Relateds

all night

Translations (15)

pl całonocny (lasting throughout the whole night) · sh целоноћни (lasting throughout the whole night) · de abendfüllend (lasting throughout the whole night) · el ολονύκτιος (lasting throughout the whole night) · el ολονύχτιος (lasting throughout the whole night) · ru всю но́чь (lasting throughout the whole night) · uk цілоні́чний (lasting throughout the whole night) · la pernox (lasting throughout the whole night) · fi koko yön kestävä (lasting throughout the whole night) · ru все́нощный (lasting throughout the whole night) · ru всю но́чь напролёт (lasting throughout the whole night) · sh celonoćni (lasting throughout the whole night) · ru ночно́й (lasting throughout the whole night) · ms semalaman (lasting throughout the whole night) · grc παννύχιος (lasting throughout the whole night)