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nightlife

UK/ˈnaɪtˌlaɪf/US/ˈnaɪtˌlaɪf/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,326 of 15,258leans written

Nightlife is the entertainment a town offers after dark. Good nightlife.

It is what estate agents and tourist offices mean when they call a town lively. Nightlife is the first thing a city loses when licensing rules and rents change, and the last thing it gets back.

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Definitions of nightlife

  1. 1nounnightlifeThe entertainment a town offers after dark.B2+

    “The nightlife in that street disappeared within about five years.”

nightlife is entertainment.

Where it comes from

Night plus life; the compound is recorded from the nineteenth century and named the hours when a city stayed awake.

From night + life.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

nightlife in the wild

  • Ibiza is well known for its nightlife and electronic dance music club scene in the summer, which attract large numbers of tourists.

    Ibiza

  • The coastal area around Budva, known as the Budva Riviera, is the center of Montenegrin tourism, renowned for its well-preserved medieval walled city, sandy beaches, and diverse nightlife.

    Budva

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.