nocturnal

Meaning of nocturnal

adjective
  1. done, occurring, or active at night.
    most owls are nocturnal

late 15th century: from late Latin nocturnalis, from Latin nocturnus ‘of the night’, from nox, noct- ‘night’.

Information about nocturnal

Hyphenation of nocturnal

noc-tur-nal

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • nocturnal is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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