schoolnight

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A form of school night — An evening before a typical school day; normally a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounschoolnight (plural schoolnights)

plural schoolnights

  1. alternativeAlternative form of school night.

    Anthony O’Toole wasn’t allowed to go out on schoolnights.

    1990, Paul Quarrington, Logan in Overtime, Doubleday Canada, page 95
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    When you go out in the evening on schoolnights, about what time do your parents want you to get home?

    1969, Travis Hirschi, Causes of Delinquency, University of California Press, published 1974, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 287

    “I thought fifth graders had homework most schoolnights.”

    1997, Suzanne Brockmann, Otherwise Engaged, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 151
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schoolnight,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schoolnight.

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