all night

From dusk onward

All night means throughout the entire night, from evening until morning: We talked all night, The diner stays open all night.

As a compound modifier before a noun, it's hyphenated: an all-night party, an all-night diner.

To pull an all-nighter is to stay awake through the night, typically studying or working.

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burning the midnight oil · insomnia · sleep deprivation · dawn · early morning · cramming · continuously · binge-watch · marathon · graveyard · red-eye · sleepless · nighttime · fatigue · overtime · alarm · binge · tired

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temporal duration

all nightbriefly

In few words

momentarily · for a moment · fleetingly · for a minute · not long

day vs night

all nightall day

For entire daylight hours

all day long · from dawn to dusk · daytime

Family

all, night, overnight, all-nighter, all-night, nocturnally, all-nighters, overnighter, nightlong

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G