night meal

English

Alternative forms

• night-meal, nightmeal

Etymology

From night + meal.

Noun

night meal (plural night meals)

1. A meal eaten at night; a late supper.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Hippolyte appreciates Delphine's erotic tutelage […] but feels anxious and dyspeptic, as if she has eaten too rich a night meal.

Synonyms

• supper-time

Coordinate terms

• daymeal