NIGHTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nightly mean? 

• NIGHTLY (adjective)
  The adjective NIGHTLY has 1 sense:

1. happening every night

  Familiarity information: NIGHTLY used as an adjective is very rare.

• NIGHTLY (adverb)
  The adverb NIGHTLY has 1 sense:

1. at the end of each day

  Familiarity information: NIGHTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIGHTLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Happening every night

Context example:

nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m.

Similar:

periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)

Derivation:

night (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside)

• NIGHTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the end of each day

Synonyms:

every night; nightly

Context example:

she checks on her roses nightly

 Context examples 

Where were all my nightly dreams of the open arms, the smiling face, the words of praise for her man who had risked his life to humor her whim?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, gentles, gentles!” cried Dame Eliza, in a singsong heedless voice, which showed that such bickerings were nightly things among her guests.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Study participants, ages 17-42, wore short wavelength-blocking glasses three hours before bedtime for two weeks, while still performing their nightly digital routine.

(Artificial Light of Digital Devices Lessens Sleep Quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You are at liberty to preserve your secret, but you must promise me that there shall be no more nightly visits, no more doings which are kept from my knowledge.

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

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They then analyzed associations between each outcome and napping, adjusting for sex, grade, school location, parental education, and nightly time in bed.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the course of his nightly patrols, he had long grown accustomed to the quaint effect with which the footfalls of a single person, while he is still a great way off, suddenly spring out distinct from the vast hum and clatter of the city.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was an everlasting miracle to Martin how it was accomplished, and from her side of the thin partition he heard nightly every detail of the going to bed, the squalls and squabbles, the soft chattering, and the sleepy, twittering noises as of birds.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There must be some deeper cause: something was to be done which could be done only while the household slept; and the probability that Mrs. Tilney yet lived, shut up for causes unknown, and receiving from the pitiless hands of her husband a nightly supply of coarse food, was the conclusion which necessarily followed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I have seen, he said, the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash with fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)