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View synonyms for night owl

night owl

[ nahyt oul ]

noun

, Informal.
  1. a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.


night owl

noun

  1. informal.
    a person who is or prefers to be up and about late at night
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Word History and Origins

Origin of night owl1

First recorded in 1585–95
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Idioms and Phrases

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.
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Example Sentences

I’m a huge night owl and I stay up until 2 in the morning watching TV shows and movies.

Fortunately, the moon will set around midnight in Southern California, removing that lunar pollution for night owls.

Among human beings, it's a familiar phenomenon: early birds rarely turn into night owls, and vice versa.

Rick Miramontez is both a night owl and an early bird.

Early Tuesday morning, night owls spotted streaks of light across the sky, with some assuming the event might be related to SpaceX’s Monday night satellite launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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