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everynight en · ADJ

Etymology

From every + night, by analogy with everyday.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Commonplace or ordinary at night.
    • This was an everyday and everynight scene a couple of decades ago. 1931, Jack While, Fifty Years of Fire Fighting in London, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., page 18:
    • It is our cultural expression, a true artistic product that finds its genesis in the everynight life of el barrio, the South Bronx, Filadelfia. 1997, Augusto C. Puleo, “Una verdadera crónica del Norte: Una noche con la India”, in Celeste Fraser Delgado, transl., edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz, Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 230:
    • It calls for methods of thinking, of writing texts, and of investigation that expand and extend our knowledge of how our everyday/everynight worlds are put together, determined and shaped as they are by forces and powers beyond our practical and direct knowledge. 1992, Patricia Connelly, Pat Armstrong, editors, Feminism in Action: Studies in Political Economy, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Scholars’ Press, →ISBN, pages 16–17: