all-night

1. 1.

   lasting, open, or operating through the whole night

   “a nightlong vigil”

   “an all-night drugstore”

   “an overnight trip”

   Synonymsnightlongovernight

   Similarlong

Questions about all-night

What does all-night mean?

all-night means "lasting, open, or operating through the whole night".

How many syllables are in all-night?

all-night has 2 syllables: all--night. The stress falls on "all-".

What is another word for all-night?

Close synonyms include nightlong, overnight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is all-night a common word?

all-night is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.