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TONIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The present or immediately coming night
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("tonight" is a kind of...):
nowadays; present (the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
During the night of the present day
Example:
drop by tonight
Synonyms:
this evening; this night; tonight
Classified under:
Context examples:
The Parrys and Sandersons luckily are coming tonight you know, and that will amuse her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Morland says that by sending it tonight to Salisbury, we may have it tomorrow.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Your stepsister has long deserved death; tonight when she is asleep I will come and cut her head off.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
These fellows who attacked the inn tonight—bold, desperate blades, for sure—and the rest who stayed aboard that lugger, and more, I dare say, not far off, are, one and all, through thick and thin, bound that they'll get that money.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“You thought her looking very beautiful tonight, Master Copperfield?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She's nothing but a doll tonight.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In another day or two perhaps; this extreme mildness can hardly last longer—nay, perhaps it may freeze tonight!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The king was greatly delighted to see all this glittering treasure; but still he had not enough: so he took the miller’s daughter to a yet larger heap, and said, All this must be spun tonight; and if it is, you shall be my queen.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I'm not a doctor only; I'm a magistrate; and if I catch a breath of complaint against you, if it's only for a piece of incivility like tonight's, I'll take effectual means to have you hunted down and routed out of this.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“You are working late tonight, Uriah,” says I.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
