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all-night

adj
/ˌɔlˈnaɪt/US/ˌɔːlˈnaɪt/UK

Etymology

From all- + night.

  1. inherited from *nókʷts✻ — “night”
  2. inherited from *nahts✻ — “night”
  3. inherited from *naht✻ — “night”
  4. inherited from niht
  5. inherited from nighte
  6. formed as all-night — “all- + night”

Definitions

  1. Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it)

    • an all-night party
    • Spite of brown-stone trimmings, plate-glass and mosaic vestibule floors, the water does not rise in summer to the second story, while the beer flows unchecked to the all-night picnics on the roof.
    • The former G.E.R. all-night service between Liverpool Street and Chingford, at hourly intervals, is revived.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for all-night. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA