📖 N — The English dictionary · page 12

nightfall — Everyday, meaning 1: The time in the evening when it becomes dark; dusk.↗ Example: We must reach the cabin before nightfall.↗ · At nightfall, the owls began to hoot.↗ · The village lights came on at nightfall.↗ · By nightfall the hikers were tired.↗ · Bats come out at nightfall.↗ · In winter, nightfall comes early.↗ · At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood.↗

nightie — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A nightdress: a loose dress worn in bed, mostly by girls and women.↗ Example: I put on my nightie and brushed my teeth.↗ · She came downstairs in her nightie.↗ · Gran gave me a pink nightie with stars on it.↗ · Pack your nightie for the sleepover.↗ · My nightie is too long; I trip on it.↗ · Mum ran into the garden in her nightie when the alarm went off.↗ · So they were told they could dance, but they must put on their nighties first.↗

nightingale — Everyday, meaning 1: A nightingale is a small brown bird famous for its beautiful, loud, varied song, which it often sings at night as well as in the day.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Florence Nightingale was an English nurse in Victorian times who made hospitals cleaner and helped start modern nursing; she was called «the Lady with the Lamp».↗ Example: A nightingale sang in the bushes all night.↗ · Nightingales are plain brown but sing beautifully.↗ · Florence Nightingale carried a lamp on her night rounds.↗ · Florence Nightingale used diagrams to show why soldiers were dying.↗ · The poet wrote an ode to a nightingale.↗ · Nightingales fly to Africa for the winter.↗ · Her singing voice is like a nightingale's.↗ · Then the Nightingale began to sing.↗

nightjar — Everyday, meaning 1: A brown, speckled bird that hunts moths at dusk and at night and makes a long, whirring, churring song.↗ It sleeps on the ground or along a branch in the day, hidden by its camouflage.↗ Example: We heard a nightjar churring on the heath.↗ · A nightjar's feathers look just like dead leaves.↗ · Nightjars catch moths in the dark.↗ · The nightjar sat so still we nearly stepped on it.↗ · In autumn the nightjars fly back to Africa.↗ · The ranger took us on a walk to listen for nightjars.↗

nightly — Everyday, meaning 1: Happening every night.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Happening at night.↗ Example: Our dog gets a nightly walk.↗ · Grandma watches the nightly news.↗ · The owls hunt nightly in the woods.↗ · The show plays twice nightly at the theatre.↗ · Brush your teeth nightly before bed.↗ · The hotel charges $80 nightly.↗ · They were coming from their nightly carousal.↗

nightmare — Everyday, meaning 1: A frightening or very upsetting dream.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A very difficult or unpleasant situation or experience.↗ Example: I had a nightmare about a giant spider.↗ · She woke up screaming from a nightmare.↗ · Scary films give me nightmares.↗ · Getting home in the snow was a nightmare.↗ · Dad said the traffic was a total nightmare.↗ · After a nightmare, a hug from Mum helps.↗ · Nightmares can feel real, but they are only dreams.↗ · Losing the tickets would be a nightmare!↗ · He thought he had a nightmare.↗

nightshade — Everyday, meaning 1: A family of plants that includes some very poisonous ones, such as deadly nightshade, which has shiny black berries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The nightshade family also includes foods like potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and aubergines.↗ Example: Deadly nightshade has shiny black berries that are very poisonous.↗ · Never eat berries you find in the wild.↗ · Potatoes and tomatoes belong to the nightshade family.↗ · In the story, the witch brewed a potion with nightshade.↗ · Woody nightshade has purple flowers and red berries.↗ · If someone eats a wild berry, tell an adult and get help at once.↗

nihilism — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) The belief that nothing really matters or has meaning, and that life has no purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, history) The idea that all rules, laws and traditions should be rejected or destroyed.↗ Example: Nihilism is the idea that life has no meaning.↗ · The villain in the story shows nihilism: he thinks nothing matters.↗ · Our philosophy club talked about nihilism and whether kindness matters.↗ · Christians believe life has meaning because God made people, so they disagree with nihilism.↗ · Some teenagers joke about nihilism when they are bored.↗ · The writer Nietzsche wrote a lot about nihilism.↗

nil — Everyday, meaning 1: Nil means nothing or zero.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, sport) Nil is used for zero in match scores: "two–nil".↗ Example: We won the match three–nil.↗ · The game ended nil–nil.↗ · The chance of snow in summer here is nil.↗ · The patient is nil by mouth before the operation.↗ · Our savings were nil after buying the bike.↗ · His interest in maths was nil until he met Mr Lee.↗ · They called it Mishnali, and it )ns hinided down to liioin by I'nil tradition from Alualiaiii."↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The numeral system of tlie Sefer Tetzirah, as I have ex- plained, may be considered to consist of live symbols, |, ||, III, nil, 0, the cipher being the fifth symbol.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

nimble — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to move quickly, easily and lightly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Quick and clever in thinking, as in "a nimble mind".↗ Example: The nimble goat climbed the steep rocks.↗ · Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick.↗ · She has nimble fingers for playing the piano.↗ · The nimble goalkeeper leapt to save the ball.↗ · A squirrel is nimble on the thin branches.↗ · The fox's nimble mind found a way out of the trap.↗ · Gymnasts must be strong and nimble.↗ · I am not a swift runner, and you are nimble as a deer.↗

nimbly — Everyday, meaning 1: Nimbly means quickly and lightly, with easy, quick movements: the cat ran nimbly up the tree.↗ Example: The monkey climbed nimbly.↗ · The hare hopped nimbly onto the platform.↗

nine — Everyday, meaning 1: Nine is the number 9.↗ It comes after eight and before ten.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A nine is the digit 9, or a playing card or score of nine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Nine o'clock» or «nine» is a time of day.↗ Example: She has nine apples.↗ · Nine birds sat on a fence.↗ · He scored nine points.↗ · Nine children are in the group.↗ · School starts at nine.↗ · A baseball team has nine players on the field.↗ · Three times three is nine.↗ · My little brother is nine years old.↗ · People say a cat has nine lives.↗ · And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.↗ (Torah GEN.11.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.↗ (Torah GEN.5.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.↗ (Torah GEN.5.11, JPS 1917)↗ · and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.↗ (Writings 1CH.3.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.↗ (Writings EZR.2.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.↗ (Writings NEH.7.38, JPS 1917)↗

ninepence — Everyday, meaning 1: An old British coin worth nine pence, used before our money was changed to decimal coins; an amount of money, not a count of coins.↗ Example: The teas cost ninepence each.↗ · She paid a ninepence for the loaf.↗ · Nine pence is also written as ninepence.↗

ninepins — Everyday, meaning 1: A game in which a ball is rolled at nine wooden pins set up in a diamond shape, to knock them down.↗ Example: We played ninepins at the fair and knocked down six pins.↗ · The men set up nine pins and began to play.↗ · Ninepins is like skittles.↗

nineteen — Everyday, meaning 1: Nineteen is the number 19.↗ It is ten and nine, one less than twenty.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Nineteen can be an age: a person who is nineteen is in their late teens.↗ Example: There are nineteen students in the class.↗ · He read nineteen pages.↗ · Nineteen cars are in the lot.↗ · Nineteen plus one is twenty.↗ · My cousin is nineteen and goes to college.↗ · The bus number nineteen goes to the beach.↗ · Nineteen is a prime number.↗ · She talked nineteen to the dozen all the way home.↗ · She was now seventeen, and he nineteen years old.↗ · And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.↗ (Torah GEN.11.25, JPS 1917)↗ · and Iron, and Migdal-el, and Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.↗ (Prophets JOS.19.38, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.↗ (Prophets 2SA.2.30, JPS 1917)↗

nineteenth — Everyday, meaning 1: Nineteenth tells the place number 19 in order, like the nineteenth runner to finish.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A nineteenth is one of nineteen equal parts of something (1/19).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «The nineteenth century» is the hundred years we call the 1800s.↗ Example: She was the nineteenth in line.↗ · On the nineteenth page there is a map.↗ · He finished nineteenth in the race.↗ · They live on the nineteenth floor.↗ · Steam trains spread in the nineteenth century.↗ · Each pupil got one nineteenth of the cake.↗ · Today is her nineteenth birthday.↗ · The nineteenth question was the hardest.↗ · It has been preserved in no less than five versions (or six, including Macpherson's "Darthula") ranging from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.↗ · The Nineteenth Path is the Intelligence of all the activities of the spiritual beings, and is so called because of the affluence diffused by it from the most high blessing and most exalted sublime glory.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Nineteenth Path is the Intelligence of all the activities of the spiritual beings, and is so called because of the aflluence diffused by it from the most high blessing and most exalted sublime glory.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel; (Writings 1CH.24.16, JPS 1917)↗ · For the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.↗ (Prophets 2KI.25.8, JPS 1917)↗

ninety — Everyday, meaning 1: Ninety is the number 90.↗ It is nine tens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «The nineties» are the numbers or ages from 90 to 99, or the years of a century ending in 90 to 99.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A ninety-degree angle is a right angle, a square corner.↗ Example: The book has ninety pages.↗ · Ninety people came to the fair.↗ · He paid ninety cents.↗ · A right angle measures ninety degrees.↗ · A soccer match lasts ninety minutes.↗ · My great-grandma is ninety.↗ · Ninety plus ten is a hundred.↗ · The corner of a book is a ninety-degree angle.↗ · Who would have believed a woman past ninety could walk with such speed?↗ · And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.↗ (Torah GEN.5.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died.↗ (Torah GEN.5.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And Lamech lived after he begot Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begot sons and daughters.↗ (Torah GEN.5.30, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.↗ (Writings EZR.2.20, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.↗ (Writings NEH.7.25, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.↗ (Writings EZR.2.16, JPS 1917)↗

ninja — Everyday, meaning 1: A secret fighter or spy in old Japan, trained in fighting, sneaking and disguises.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A person who is very skilled at something: «a spelling ninja».↗ Example: The ninja crept silently across the rooftop.↗ · I sneaked downstairs like a ninja to get a snack.↗ · Ninjas were real spies in old Japan.↗ · You solved that puzzle so fast — you're a maths ninja!↗ · The cartoon about ninja turtles is very old but still popular.↗ · My brother does ninja moves on the trampoline.↗

ninny — Everyday, meaning 1: A silly person who does not think clearly; a fool.↗ Example: Don't be a ninny, the sea is cold.↗ · The ninny believed every word the fox said.↗

ninth — Everyday, meaning 1: Ninth tells the place number 9 in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A ninth is also one of nine equal parts of something, 1/9.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In music, a ninth is a gap of nine notes.↗ Example: She is ninth in the line.↗ · A ninth of the pizza is left.↗ · He finished ninth.↗ · Two ninths of the class are boys.↗ · My sister is in ninth grade.↗ · Nine ninths make one whole.↗ · It was his ninth birthday party.↗ · The ninth planet used to be Pluto, but now it is called a dwarf planet.↗ · The Daphnephoria was celebrated at Thebes in honour of Apollo every ninth year.↗ · On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin: (Torah NUM.7.60, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old store.↗ (Torah LEV.25.22, JPS 1917)↗ · It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.↗ (Torah LEV.23.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth; (Writings 1CH.12.13, JPS 1917)↗ · the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah; (Writings 1CH.24.11, JPS 1917)↗ · The ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.16, JPS 1917)↗