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# nightly

«nightly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Happening every night** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (a nightly walk); adverb (it happens nightly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Happening every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#m1)

2) Happening at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

It tells the reader how often something happens: once each night. In stories and news: the nightly news, nightly prayers. In maths, «nightly» means once per night, so over a week that is 7 times. Phrases: twice nightly, the nightly news.

### examples

- Our dog gets a nightly walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#x1)
- Grandma watches the nightly news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#x2)
- The owls hunt nightly in the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#x3)
- The show plays twice nightly at the theatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#x4)
- Brush your teeth nightly before bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#x5)
- The hotel charges $80 nightly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#x6)
- They were coming from their nightly carousal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightly/#x7)

### note

Both adjective and adverb with the same form. Like daily, weekly, monthly. Maths: «$80 nightly for 3 nights» means 80 × 3 = 240. «Twice nightly» means 2 times each night. Do not confuse with «knightly» (like a knight), which sounds the same.

### Trees and pragmatics

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