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tonight, adv. and n.|təˈnaɪt, tʊ-|
Forms: see night. Also as two words and with hyphen.
[OE. tó niht, to prep. A. 7 + night. Cf. today.]
A. adv.
1. On this very night (i.e. the night now present).
a1300Cursor M. 11246 (Cott.), I bring yow word wit ioi and blis, Born to night your sauueour es! 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 83 Much Wind to Night at Northwest. 1797Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VII. p. cxlv, Half past 3 a.m. I was merely a spectator to⁓night. 1832Tennyson May Queen ii. ii, To-night I saw the sun set. 1842― Audley Court 69, I go to-night: I come to-morrow morn.
b. On any night (as contrasted with the next day). Cf. today A. 1 b.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxiii. 5 And with thy nychtbouris glaidly len and borrow His chance to nycht it may be thyne tomorrow. 1557North Gueuara's Diall Pr. i. xxviii. (1568) 41 For many are layde to nighte into their graue, which the next day following [are] thought to be aliue.
2. On the night following this day.
c1000ælfric Numb. xxii. 19 Ac beoþ her toniht, and abidaþ andsware. c1000― Hom. II. 104 Ðu stunta, nu toniht [Luke xii. 20 on þisse nihte] ðu scealt ðin lif alætan. c1205Lay. 709 Anacletus leofe freond to-niht þu scalt faren. c1275Passion of Our Lord 104 in O.E. Misc. 40 He me schal bitraye to nyht er he slepe. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 495, I sall cum out..to morn, Or ellys to nycht. 1539Bible (Great) Ruth iii. 2 Beholde, he wenoweth barleye to nyght in the thresshyng floure. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 201 Last night she slept not, nor to night she shall not. 1605― Macb. i. v. 59 Duncan comes here to Night. 1876Morris Sigurd (1877) 237 Tonight shall be the weaving, and tomorn the web shall ye win.
†3. On the night just past; last night. (Perhaps only said in the morning.) Obs. exc. dial.
c1205Lay. 28011 Þa axede hine an uæir cniht, Lauerd hu hauest þu iuaren to-niht? c1290Beket 1542 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 150 To-niȝt ase ich was a-slepe a wonder metinge me com. 1390Gower Conf. I. 73 No mannes myht Mai do that he hath do to nyht. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 50. I dreampt a dreame to night. 1610B. Jonson Alch. i. ii, Sub... The Queene of Faerie do's not rise, Till it be noone. Fac. Not, if she daunc'd to night. 1641Brome Jovial Crew iii. Wks. 1873 III. 393 Ease call'st thou it? Didst thou sleep to night? 1798J. Jefferson Let. to J. Boucher 23 Feb. (MS.), [Hampshire expressions] To-night for last night, or yesternight.
B. n. This night, or the night after this day.
a1300Cursor M. 3543 (Cott.) Þou sal neuer forth fra to night In þi forbirth do claim na right. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iii. 142 Sweet Sir Toby be patient for to night. 1709Prior Thief & Cordelier ix, He that's hang'd before noon, ought to think of to-night. 1799Wordsw. Lucy Gray iv, To-night will be a stormy night—You to the town must go. 1908[Miss E. Fowler] Betw. Trent & Ancholme 212 To⁓night is cloudy and dull. |