night owl

English

Noun

night owl (plural night owls)

1. (idiomatic) One who stays up late at night or goes to bed late.

   He's a night owl. He would rather stay up until 6am than wake up at that time.

Synonyms

• nighthawk, night person

Antonyms

• early bird, lark, day lark, morning person

Translations

(idiomatic) one who stays up late at night or goes to bed late

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夜貓子 (cmn), 夜猫子 (cmn) (yè māozi)

• Danish: natteravn (da) c
• Dutch: nachtbraker (nl) m, avondmens (nl) m
• Finnish: yökyöpeli (fi)
• French: couche-tard (fr) m and f, noctambule (fr) m and f, oiseau de nuit (fr) m
• German: Nachteule (de) f, Nachtschwärmer (de) f, Nachtmensch (de) pl
• Hungarian: éjjeli bagoly (hu)
• Icelandic: nátthrafn (is) m
• Italian: nottambulo (it) m

• Japanese: 宵っ張り (ja), 宵っぱり (ja) (よいっぱり, yoippari), 夜更かし (ja) (よふかし, yofukashi), 夜型 (ja) (よるがた, yorugata)
• Polish: nocny marek (pl)
• Portuguese: noctâmbulo (pt) m, noctívago (pt) m
• Russian: сова (ru) (sová) f, полуночник (ru) (polunóčnik) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ноћна птица (sh)

  Latin: noćna ptica (sh)

• Spanish: ave nocturna (es), noctámbulo (es) m, trasnochador (es) m
• Swedish: nattuggla (sv) c