birthnight

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noun

The night of someone's birth.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounbirthnight (plural birthnights)

plural birthnights

  1. The night of someone's birth.
  2. The night of someone's birthday.

    And of the Angelic Song in Bethlehem field, / On thy birth-night, that ſung thee Saviour born.

    1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 104–105, lines 502–503
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    he was on his way home and was going to take her out to IHOP for a late night birthday. I guess the best thing to have done, had I known , would have been to wish her a Happy Birthnight.

    2018, Norman Ross, Pater Noster in Condoland

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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