nightlife

/ˌnaɪtˈlaɪf/

/ˈnaɪtlaɪf/

Popular entertainment that happens after dark is called nightlife. In your small town, the nightlife might be all about disco night at the Elks Lodge.

Any social activity you take part in at night can be called nightlife, but the word usually describes things like dancing at clubs, big parties, and live music concerts. If you visit a large city, there is going to be more nightlife available than if you spend the summer in remote Alaska. This word, with its original definition, "habitual nocturnal carousing," dates from the 1850s.

Definitions of nightlife

1. noun

   the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion
   synonyms: night life

   type of:

   amusement, entertainment

   an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
2. noun

   the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.)
   “a futile search for intelligent nightlife”

   “in the summer the nightlife shifts to the dance clubs”

   synonyms: night life

   type of:

   diversion, recreation

   an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates