Meanings
nounnight-song (plural night-songs)
plural night-songs
- literaryThe vocalisations of birds, sounds of insects, etc., given at night.
The night-song of the crickets was almost done and somewhere on the island a mocking bird bubbled its first notes.
1954, Ian Fleming, “Terror By The Sea”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 229
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