Meanings
nounnightbird (plural nightbirds)
plural nightbirds
- alternativeAlternative form of night bird.
This bar was practically in my quartier and I had many times had breakfast in the nearby working man’s cafe to which all the nightbirds of the neighborhood retired when the bars closed.
1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin Classics (2001), page 30
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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APA
nightbird. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightbird
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“nightbird.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightbird. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nightbird,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightbird.
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