TONIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tonight mean? 

• TONIGHT (noun)
  The noun TONIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the present or immediately coming night

  Familiarity information: TONIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. during the night of the present day

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TONIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The present or immediately coming night

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("tonight" is a kind of...):

nowadays; present (the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech)

• TONIGHT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

During the night of the present day

Synonyms:

this evening; this night; tonight

Context example:

drop by tonight

 Context examples 

“Do you know how he is tonight?” I asked.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But, my dearest Catherine, have you settled what to wear on your head tonight?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We were in the Slough of Despond tonight, and Mother came and pulled us out as Help did in the book.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I hope he will come tonight.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Tonight, when the robbers are all asleep, we will flee together.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Tonight when the new Moon rises, or in the next few nights when the Moon is a slim crescent, go outside and look up.

(Earthshine, NASA)

I could not doubt that this was the BLACK SPOT; and taking it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: “You have till ten tonight.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But tonight there was a shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory; he felt (what was rare with him) a nausea and distaste of life; and in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof.

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

“I am very well,” said I; “and not at all Bacchanalian tonight, though I confess to another party of three.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Please don't tell them at home about my dress tonight.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)