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night owl
night owl
A person who prefers to be awake late at night. In my younger days, I was quite a night owl and would often stay up until sunrise.
night owl
Fig. someone who stays up at night; someone who works at night. My roommate is a night owl and usually reads until 5:00 A.M. A few night owls stayed at the café all night long.
night owl
A person who habitually stays up late and is active at night, as in You can call her after midnight, for she's a night owl. This colloquial term, originally used in the late 1500s for an owl that is active at night, was transferred to nocturnal human beings in the mid-1800s.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Ramona | | rah-MO-nah (Spanish), rə-MON-ə (English) | Spanish, Romanian, English |
Lia (2) | | LEE-ah (Italian) | Italian, Dutch |
SØLvi | | - | Norwegian |
RenÁTa | | RE-nah-taw (Hungarian) | Hungarian, Czech, Slovak |
MeallÁN | | MEL-awn | Irish |
Andebert | | - | Ancient Germanic |