as in nightclub
a bar or restaurant offering special nighttime entertainment (as music, dancing, or comedy acts) one of the city's few nightspots featuring a dance floor and a live band

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Recent Examples of nightspot The island-chain’s first mass shooting, the incident unfolded at 2:57 a.m. Sunday when officers with the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands responded to reports of gunfire at a popular nightspot in Providenciales called the Island Hookah and Cigar. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025 The Forum Club became one of the city’s hottest nightspots. Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025 Longtime production designer Adam Stockhausen outdoes himself here, creating vivid worlds that run the gamut from exotic, Casablanca-style nightspots to underground-tunnel meeting spaces to treacherous jungle landscapes. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025 Local authorities were called to the popular nightspot around 1:50 a.m. to investigate reports of gunfire. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for nightspot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nightspot
Noun
  • The next 12 hours will take us to 10 stops across three of the city’s five boroughs, from a rundown police precinct to a glitzy nightclub, from a subway platform to a taxi-drivers’ gala.
    Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The nightclub will feature two bars, a stage for performers, two VIP sections and a dancefloor in its roughly 6,000-square-foot space.
    Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After attending the Hulu series's premiere event, Kardashian also hit the Paris cabaret club Crazy Horse at night, per Just Jared.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The film also has moments from the Crazy Horse, where Aguilera performs her anthems in a cabaret sequence.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And yet, the same could be said whenever the trio is on a bill at a jam-band show, jazz night, or some blues club.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The club simply dominated for nearly the first five months of the season, only to suffer the largest single collapse in major league history, blowing a 15 1/2-game lead on July 8 to lose the AL Central Division pennant to the Cleveland Guardians.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Zeev with Navan’s founders Ariel Cohen (L) and Ilan Twig (C) at an initial investment meeting for Navan at a Palo Alto, California, cafe in 2015.
    Michal Lev-Ram, CNBC Contributor, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
  • In its post, the cafe said more information about the Elk Grove cafe’s opening date and grand opening festivities would be coming soon.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Nightspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightspot. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.

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