EVERY NIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does every night mean? 

• EVERY NIGHT (adverb)
  The adverb EVERY NIGHT has 1 sense:

1. at the end of each day

  Familiarity information: EVERY NIGHT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERY NIGHT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the end of each day

Synonyms:

every night; nightly

Context example:

she checks on her roses nightly

 Context examples 

I lived in that farm, where I had a room down below, and could get in and out every night, and no one the wiser.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Toller lets him loose every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs upon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The people of the house are careful to lock the door every night, so I feared that Lucy must have gone out as she was.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I understand that a stable-boy sleeps there alone every night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The days slipped along, and he slept eight hours regularly every night.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

REM is one of several sleep stages the body cycles through every night.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)

These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The reason the Lion did not have to do as the Witch wished was that every night, while the woman was asleep, Dorothy carried him food from the cupboard.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then you are not in the habit of bolting your door every night before you get into bed?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)