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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who habitually stays up and is active late into the night.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An owl of notably or exclusively nocturnal habits. All owls are nocturnal, but some less so than others, and night-owl is used in contrast to day-owl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person who likes to be active late at night.
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- noun idiomatic One who stays up
late at night or goes to bed late.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
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bilby commented on the word night owl
What's the opposite of night owl, rt?
September 16, 2008
reesetee commented on the word night owl
Yep, this phrase always bugged me a little too. :-) But there are diurnal owls, the Snowy Owl being one of the best known.
September 16, 2008