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# tonight

«tonight» in Mova's school dictionary: **this evening or this night, the one coming at the end of…** — 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

adverb; noun (tonight)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tonight means this evening or this night, the one coming at the end of today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#m1)

2) As a noun, tonight is the evening or night of today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is used for plans and weather («rain tonight»); in stories it builds suspense about what will happen. Phrases: «tonight's dinner», «later tonight», «not tonight».

### examples

- We are having pizza tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#x1)
- It will be cold tonight, so wear a jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#x2)
- Tonight's show starts at seven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#x3)
- Can I stay up late tonight? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#x4)
- Look for the full moon tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#x5)
- I'll finish my homework tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#x6)
- Not tonight, it's a school night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#x7)
- “But I’m telling you that I go tonight.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tonight/#x8)

### note

One word, no hyphen today (to-night is old). «Tonight's» with an apostrophe. Compare: today (this day), tomorrow (next day), last night (the night before). Informal spelling «tonite» is not correct in schoolwork.

### In the corpora

- [Let's leave the landing light on tonight, and next time you can just say it's not for you."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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