Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no night: as, the nightless period in the arctic regions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no night.
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- adjective Without
night .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kanye West apologizes to Taylor Swift in 140 character bursts 2010
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Ilulissat Icefjord is located above the Arctic Circle, and has sunless winters and nightless summers only two to three months long.
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Hunger said louder than her watch what a time had passed while the sun brooded nightless.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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An 'ye were like the morning sun, an' life a nightless day?
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Here and there in the Economia embarkation camp those days and nightless nights in early June many a secret conclave of doughboys was held to devise ways and means of getting their Russian mascots aboard ship.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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They show us in part that state in which we shall be when we shall rise up renewed on that great and universal morning of the nightless day of resurrection, or when we shall rid ourselves of this mortal body.
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Probably many of the craft have wasted a good deal of the last few first-nightless weeks in the trying task of reading plays, not the printed plays by dramatists of reputation, but the manuscripts with which we, or some of us, are flooded.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896
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Gudruda sat on high in the bride's seat, asking wisdom of the piled-up dead, while the cold blue shadows of the nightless night gathered over her and them -- gathered, and waned, and grew at last to the glare of day.
Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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He, to match her, spoke of Iceland, its pale, nightless summers and sun that never set.
An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886
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And the day when death should be dead, and the new sun's nightless birth.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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