Lucubrate is a verb meaning to work (such as study, write, discourse) laboriously or learnedly, often by night.
Lucubrate es un verbo que significa trabajar, estudiar o escribir de forma laboriosa y erudita, a menudo por la noche.
| Back | lucubrate /LOO-kyoo-brayt/ |
|---|---|
| Front | verb intr. To work (such as study, write, discourse) laboriously or learnedly. [Here's a word that literally encapsulates the idiom "to burn the midnight oil". It's derived from Latin lucubrare (to work by lamplight), from lucere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leuk- (light) that's resulted in other words such as lunar, lunatic, light, lightning, lucid, illuminate, illustrate, translucent, lux, and lynx.] "So MPs have voted to lucubrate less. To lucubrate fewer? To sit for fewer midnight hours. To work less antisocial hours. To have less/fewer late nights." - Philip Howard; Less is More Prevalent; The Times (London, UK); Nov 1, 2002. |
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