to-night

adverb

Dated spelling of tonight.

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Meanings

adverbto-night (not comparable)
  1. not comparableDated spelling of tonight.

    Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think!

    1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 6
nounto-night (usually uncountable, plural to-nights)

plural to-nights

  1. uncountableusuallyDated spelling of tonight.

Origin

From to- + night.

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Cite this entry
APA

to-night. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to-night

MLA

“to-night.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to-night. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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

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