Crossword-Solution: NOCTURNAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nocturnal | a. | Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to diurnal. |
| Nocturnal | a. | Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects. |
| Nocturnal | n. | An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the stars, etc., at sea. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “NOCTURNAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Act by night | 1 answer |
| prefers nighttime | 1 answer |
| of the night | 1 answer |
| belonging to or active during the night | 1 answer |
| Up at night, as owls | 1 answer |
| Relating to night | 1 answer |
| Pertaining to night | 1 answer |
| Like bats | 1 answer |
| Active at night | 1 answer |
| NIGHT (pert. to) | 2 answers |
| vespertine | 5 answers |
| EVERY night | 6 answers |
| EACH night | 6 answers |
| BY night | 7 answers |
| nightly | 8 answers |
| at night | 9 answers |
| nighttime | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with NOCTURNAL (5)
Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note.
After such a nocturnal reconnoitre among these astral clusters, aloft from the customary haunts of thought and vision, some men may feel raised to a capability for eternity at once.
But, gradually, the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper World were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages.
And when at last, thinking the driver had begun to grow suspicious, he discharged the cab and ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the midst of the nocturnal passengers, these two base passions raged within him like a tempest.
For an instant my hand touched against human flesh, and then, as I lunged headforemost through the darkness to seize my nocturnal visitor, my foot became entangled in my sleeping silks and I fell sprawling to the floor.
Quotes with NOCTURNAL (3)
At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was only remembering a dream? She was alone among the rocks on a dark coast beside the sea. The water surged upward and fell back languidly, and in the distance she heard surf breaking slowly on a sandy shore. It was comforting to be this close to the surface of the ocean and gaze at the intimate nocturnal details of its swelling and ebbing. And as she listened to the faraway brea…
Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill bey…
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2004–2006).