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tonight Definition

to·night (tə nīt)

adverb

  1. on or during the present or coming night
  2. Obsolete last night

Etymology: ME to niht < OE: see to & night

noun

  1. the present night
  2. the night coming after the present day

tonight Synonyms

tonight

n.

this evening, this p.m., this night, later; see night 1.

tonight Quotes

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board.

—Snyder, Gary Sherman

   'This night shall thy soul be required of thee.' My soul is never required of me It always has to be somebody else of course. Will my soul be required of me tonight perhaps? See Bible115:42.

—Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)

'Yestreen the queen had four Maries, The night she'll hae but three; There was Marie Seaton, and Mari Beaton, And Marie Carmichael, and me.'

—Ballads

Tonightöto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansöI ask for your support.

—Nixon, Richard M(ilhous)

   Tonight we sleep On the banks of Rubiconöthe die is cast; There will be time to audit The accounts later, there will be sunlight later And the equation will come out at last.

—MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis

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