nighthawk:
(also ‘night owl‘, ‘night bird‘; plural: ‘nighthawks‘; pronunciation: ‘night’…’hawk’ — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person with the habit of staying up and being active at night, or a person who thinks or works best at night,
some nighthawks/night owls at a late night snack vendor
e.g.
In some countries the internet broadband service is best suited for nighthawks because the service is cheaper and faster between late night and early morning.
This beach road is usually free of traffic; nobody uses it at night, except, of course, some nighthawks.
Researchers have found out that nighthawks/night owls have trouble getting into a good relationship with others.
For an article about the famous ‘Nighthawks’ painting in 3D in New York, please click here, for an article about a couple — the wife, an early bird and the husband, a nighthawk, and in which we see ‘night owl’ and ‘nighthawk’ are used interchangeably, please click here and for a news article that shows us how our modern day economy driving people to be nighthawks, please click here. (For an interesting study on people with different work schedules in which we see how bird names are given to people, please click here.)
Compare: hawk
(a nighthawk bird)
Note: A ‘hawk‘ is a day time bird, and a ‘nighthawk’, on the other hand, is a kind of bird that is active at night, also called ‘nightjar’. For an article about nightjars, please click here.
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