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 Forum Club became one of the city’s hottest nightspots.
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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
Which doesn’t mean the nightspots are losing money: Charging $10 a head, a club like the World, which holds about 1,300 people, can gross $40,000 in a weekend.
—Amy Virshup, Vulture, 14 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
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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
Which doesn’t mean the nightspots are losing money: Charging $10 a head, a club like the World, which holds about 1,300 people, can gross $40,000 in a weekend.
—Amy Virshup, Vulture, 14 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nightspot
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Known as the Harlem of the West, the Douglas Hotel was complete with the Creole Palace nightclub where Black performers in the 1930s and ’40s could perform during the years of segregation.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Musical, stepping into the role of Satine, the glittering nightclub star and tragic heroine made famous by Nicole Kidman on screen.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the second half folds in the aesthetics of Vegas strip cabarets with eerie melodies from movie scores like Danny Elfman’s Nightmare Before Christmas.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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The Musical follows an American man in Paris at the turn of the 20th century, Christian, who falls in love with a performer at the titular cabaret club named Satine.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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Some offer free parking to casino rewards club members at certain status levels.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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For a guy like Bryan, who was still in the Navy four years ago and was playing small clubs as late as 2022, crazy indeed.—
Joel Hoard,
Rolling Stone,
28 Sep. 2025
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Here are 37 new restaurants, bars and cafes that are now open in metro Phoenix.—
Endia Fontanez,
AZCentral.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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It’s located on the first floor, near Sebastian’s Bistro, a cafe with an executive sous chef that is also open to the public and decorated with dangling flying ibises, the bird that inspired UM’s mascot.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Nightspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightspot. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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