Nightingale

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

1
A surname.
After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home.
2
A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, named after Florence Nightingale.

noun

1
A temporary facility built at short notice during the COVID-19 pandemic, or by extension any other emergency.
In June, the National Education Union wrote to the government, asking it to set up “Nightingale schools”: classrooms in churches, libraries and leisure centres.
This scenario would put the NHS under extreme pressure and lead to more non-Covid patients being turned away and use of all available space in Nightingales.
In order to create more prison spaces, Farage said his party would spend £5bn to build and operate five new low-security 'Nightingale' prisons on Ministry of Defence land, creating 12,400 spaces for "lower category offenders".
The last place he showed me was an empty ward, once used as a Nightingale ward for Covid.

Forms

plural: Nightingales

nightfall · The close of the day; the coming of night.nightgown · A long loose robe worn mainly by women for sleeping in.nightingale · A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos,…

Nightingale · A surname.

nightly · Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.nightmare · A very unpleasant or frightening dream.nights · At night (during night-time, especially on a regular basis).

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