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to-night en · ADV

Etymology

From to- + night.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Dated spelling of tonight.
    • Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think! 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 6:

to-night en · NOUN

Etymology

From to- + night.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) Dated spelling of tonight.

Forms

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