night owl

1. 1.

   a person who likes to be active late at night

   Synonymsnighthawknightbird

   Broaderindividualist

Questions about night owl

What does night owl mean?

night owl means "a person who likes to be active late at night".

What is another word for night owl?

Close synonyms include nighthawk, nightbird. 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 night owl a common word?

night owl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.