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PRONUNCIATION OF NIGHTPIECE

nightpiece  [ˈnaɪtˌpiːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NIGHTPIECE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nightpiece is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NIGHTPIECE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nightpiece in the English dictionary

The first definition of nightpiece in the dictionary is a work of art representing a night scene. Other definition of nightpiece is a literary composition possessing qualities generally associated with the night, e.g. darkness/gloom, quiet, melancholy. Nightpiece is also a mistress or kept-woman.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NIGHTPIECE


altarpiece
ˈɔːltəˌpiːs
backpiece
ˈbækˌpiːs
centerpiece
ˈsɛntəˌpiːs
centrepiece
ˈsɛntəˌpiːs
cheekpiece
ˈtʃiːkˌpiːs
codpiece
ˈkɒdˌpiːs
earpiece
ˈɪəˌpiːs
eyepiece
ˈaɪˌpiːs
frontispiece
ˈfrʌntɪsˌpiːs
Greenpeace
ˈɡriːnˌpiːs
hairpiece
ˈhɛəˌpiːs
headpiece
ˈhɛdˌpiːs
masterpiece
ˈmɑːstəˌpiːs
mouthpiece
ˈmaʊθˌpiːs
neckpiece
ˈnɛkˌpiːs
nosepiece
ˈnəʊzˌpiːs
showpiece
ˈʃəʊˌpiːs
tailpiece
ˈteɪlˌpiːs
timepiece
ˈtaɪmˌpiːs
workpiece
ˈwɜːkˌpiːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NIGHTPIECE

nightlife
nightlike
nightlong
nightly
nightmare
nightmare scenario
nightmarish
nightmarishly
nightmarishness
nightmary
nightrider
nightriding
nights
nightscope
nightshade
nightshirt
nightside
nightspot
nightstick
nightwalker

WORDS THAT END LIKE NIGHTPIECE

apiece
companion piece
conversation piece
fieldpiece
hand-piece
mantelpiece
museum piece
niece
of a piece
one-piece
party piece
period piece
piano piece
piece
pole piece
puff piece
set piece
T-piece
test piece
three-piece
two-piece

Synonyms and antonyms of nightpiece in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nightpiece» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NIGHTPIECE

Find out the translation of nightpiece to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nightpiece from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nightpiece» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

nightpiece
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nightpiece
570 millions of speakers

English

nightpiece
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nightpiece
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nightpiece
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

nightpiece
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nightpiece
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nightpiece
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nightpiece
220 millions of speakers

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Malam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nightpiece
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nightpiece
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nightpiece
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nightpiece
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bức họa phong cảnh ban đêm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nightpiece
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रात्रीचा नाद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nightpiece
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nightpiece
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nightpiece
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

nightpiece
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nightpiece
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

nightpiece
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nightpiece
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nightpiece
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nightpiece
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nightpiece

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NIGHTPIECE»

The term «nightpiece» is barely ever used and occupies the 197.247 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NIGHTPIECE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nightpiece» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nightpiece» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nightpiece

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIGHTPIECE»

Discover the use of nightpiece in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nightpiece and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Genetic Studies in Joyce
Villanelle The writing that articulates the connections between Giacomo's " sindark nave" and the published text of "Nightpiece" unfolds Joyce's poetics of the Virgin; fictionalized (or thinly fictionalized?), Joyce's mariolatrous poetics inform the ...
David Hayman, Sam Slote, 1995
2
Critical Companion to James Joyce: A Literary Reference to ...
The poem dwells upon frustrated desire in a tone closer to self-pity than to seduction and reiterates an erotic theme found in some of the poems of Chamber Music. “Nightpiece” This, the ninth poem in the collection, was written in Trieste in  ...
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Michael Patrick Gillespie, 2006
3
The Room Within: Poems
Nightpiece. To my newborn son Welcome, Michael—our home. Delight has left us all but numb! Above the park, to this room, love at last has come. Your tiny fist strikes out at noise womb's dark would not admit— first rites of self, genetic poise  ...
Moore Moran, 2010
4
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962
NIGHTPIECE. I. f you keep command of yourself You can bear almost anything. But man must rest, A man must sleep: that is, abandon control: then all the sick demons Take him in charge. Who ever heard of a pleasant dream? Fear and ...
Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt, 1991
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Fiambre Chapin
NIGHtPIECE. La Antigua, Guatemala. N. ubbles of clouds, each with a halo burned to incandescence by ... of our children-to-be? Time has no dimension in these matters. ƒ. YEstERYEAR IN GUAtE O nce upon a time, over 50 E 49 Nightpiece.
E. Croft Long
6
Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey
Painting had made Chandler's contemporary readers familiar with a nightpiece such as he offered. Salvator Rosa, the Italian painter of nightscenes, brigands and ruins, had gained an immense popularity in late 18th century Britain, and British ...
Reinhold Schiffer, 1999
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Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the ...
32 Cf. the “wakeful night[s]” of Parnell's “NightPiece” (2); Ralph's Night, which “ wakes the studioussoulto solemn thought” (Ralph, p. 3); also, the “disturb'd Repose” of Young's Night Thoughts:“Tir'd nature's sweet Restorer, balmy Sleep!
Dr Eric Parisot, 2013
8
The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer ...
Several lines from the 'Nightpiece' are candidates for inclusion in Peri Bathous. Yet the passage also includes that current of self-reflectiveness which typifies the poetry of translation. In a letter to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, then living in ...
Matthew Reynolds, 2011
9
Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
A. NIGHTPIECE. ——THE sky is overcast With a continuous cloud of texture close, Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon, Which through that veil is indistinctly seen, A dull, contracted circle, yieldinglight So feebly spread,thatnota shadow ...
William Wordsworth, 2013
10
English Poets of the Eighteenth Century by Selected and ...
THOMAS. PARNELL. FROM. A. NIGHTPIECE. ON. DEATH. By the blue taper' stremblinglight, NomoreIwaste the wakeful night, Intentwithendlessviewto pore The schoolmen and thesageso'er; Their books from wisdom widely stray, Or point at ...
Ernest Bernbaum

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIGHTPIECE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nightpiece is used in the context of the following news items.
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Film about Weymouth lifeboat crew set for international festival outing
The film was selected from among 2,101 entries from around the world to be part of the Nightpiece International Film Festival which is being shown at this year's ... «Dorset Echo, Jul 15»
2
Autobiographical film highlights plight of child carers
Seesaw was also shown at the Nightpiece Film Festival for short films as part of the Edinburgh Fringe last month. Keywords: NHS ... «Hackney Gazette, Sep 14»

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