night owl

English

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Noun

night owl (plural night owls)

1. (idiomatic) One who stays up late at night or goes to bed late.
2. A heron of genus Nycticorax.

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

• Afrikaans: naguil (af) (night owl), nagwolf (af) (night wolf), naglooper (night walker)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 夜貓／夜猫, 夜猫 (je⁶ maau¹), 夜遊神／夜游神, 夜游神 (je⁶ jau⁴ san⁴), 夜鬼 (je⁶ gwai²)

  Mandarin: 夜貓子／夜猫子 (zh) (yèmāozi), 夜猫子 (zh) (yè māozi)

  Min Nan: 暗光鳥／暗光鸟 (zh-min-nan), 暗光鸟 (zh-min-nan) (àm-kong-chiáu)

• Danish: natteravn c
• Dutch: nachtbraker (nl) m, avondmens (nl) m
• Faroese: náttarravnur m
• Finnish: yökyöpeli (fi), yöihminen, iltavirkku (fi)
• French: couche-tard (fr) m or f, noctambule (fr) m or f, oiseau de nuit (fr) m
• German: Nachteule (de) f, Nachtschwärmer (de) f, Nachtmensch (de) pl
• Greek: νυχτερινός τύπος m (nychterinós týpos), νυχτοπούλι (el) m or f or n (nychtopoúli), ξενύχτης (el) m (xenýchtis)
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• Hungarian: éjjeli bagoly
• Icelandic: nátthrafn m
• Italian: nottambulo m, nottolone m
• Japanese: 宵っ張り (よいっぱり, yoippari), 宵っぱり (よいっぱり, yoippari), 夜更かし (ja) (よふかし, yofukashi), 夜型 (よるがた, yorugata)
• Polish: nocny marek (pl)
• Portuguese: noctâmbulo m, noctívago (pt) m, coruja (pt) m or f
• Russian: сова́ (ru) f (sová), полуно́чник (ru) m (polunóčnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ноћна птица

  Latin: noćna ptica (sh)

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

References

• “night owl”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.