nightcap

«nightcap» in Mova's school dictionary: A soft cloth cap people used to wear in bed to keep their… — 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

noun (a nightcap, nightcaps)

meaning for a pupil

1) A soft cloth cap people used to wear in bed to keep their heads warm. tree →

2) A drink, often alcoholic or a hot milky drink, taken just before going to bed. tree →

sense in the lessons

In old stories and fairy tales characters wear nightcaps (like Scrooge or Wee Willie Winkie). In everyday adult talk a nightcap is a last drink before bed. Children might have warm milk as a nightcap.

examples

• Wee Willie Winkie ran through the town in his nightcap. tree →
• Grandpa had a cup of cocoa as a nightcap. tree →
• The old man pulled his nightcap over his ears. tree →
• The guests stayed for a nightcap after dinner. tree →
• In the picture book the bear wears a striped nightcap. tree →
• They were in the nightcap still. tree →

note

One word: night + cap. In the drink sense it is often alcohol, for adults.

In the corpora

• A "nightcap" is an alcoholic drink before bed.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nightcap» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.