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# nightcap

«nightcap» in Mova's school dictionary: **A soft cloth cap people used to wear in bed to keep their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a nightcap, nightcaps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A soft cloth cap people used to wear in bed to keep their heads warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/#m1)

2) A drink, often alcoholic or a hot milky drink, taken just before going to bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In old stories and fairy tales characters wear nightcaps (like Scrooge or Wee Willie Winkie). In everyday adult talk a nightcap is a last drink before bed. Children might have warm milk as a nightcap.

### examples

- Wee Willie Winkie ran through the town in his nightcap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/#x1)
- Grandpa had a cup of cocoa as a nightcap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/#x2)
- The old man pulled his nightcap over his ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/#x3)
- The guests stayed for a nightcap after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/#x4)
- In the picture book the bear wears a striped nightcap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/#x5)
- They were in the nightcap still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/#x6)

### note

One word: night + cap. In the drink sense it is often alcohol, for adults.

### In the corpora

- [A "nightcap" is an alcoholic drink before bed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nightcap» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightcap/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.