Usually means: Active primarily during the night.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. nocturnal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nocturnal: Merriam-Webster
  3. nocturnal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nocturnal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nocturnal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nocturnal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nocturnal, nocturnal: Wordnik
  8. nocturnal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nocturnal: Wiktionary
  10. nocturnal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nocturnal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nocturnal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nocturnal: Dictionary.com
  14. nocturnal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. nocturnal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Nocturnal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. nocturnal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. nocturnal: Rhymezone
  20. Nocturnal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. nocturnal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. nocturnal: FreeDictionary.org
  23. nocturnal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. nocturnal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nocturnal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. nocturnal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Nocturnal: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  5. nocturnal: Medical dictionary

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. nocturnal: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Nocturnal: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  6. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  7. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  9. nocturnal: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nocturnal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See nocturnally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person, creature, group, or species) Primarily active during the night.
adjective:  (of an occurrence) Taking place at night, nightly.
noun:  A person or creature that is active at night.
noun:  (historical) A device for telling the time at night, rather like a sundial but read according to the stars.

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