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English
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Etymology
From all- + night.
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Adjective
all-night (not comparable)
- Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it)
- Coordinate term: all-day
an all-night party
1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 19:Spite of brown-stone trimmings, plate-glass and mosaic vestibule floors, the water does not rise in summer to the second story, while the beer flows unchecked to the all-night picnics on the roof.
1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 20:The former G.E.R. all-night service between Liverpool Street and Chingford, at hourly intervals, is revived.
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lasting throughout the whole night
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