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night owl ‎(plural night owls)

(idiomatic) One who stays up late at night or goes to bed late.
He's a night owl. He would rather stay up until 6am than wake up at that time.
A heron of genus Nycticorax.

(idiomatic) one who stays up late at night or goes to bed late

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Chinese:

Cantonese: 夜貓, 夜猫 ‎(je⁶ maau¹), 夜遊神, 夜游神 ‎(je⁶ jau⁴ san⁴), 夜鬼 ‎(je⁶ gwai²)

Mandarin: 夜貓子 (zh), 夜猫子 (zh) ‎(yè māozi)

Min Nan: 暗光鳥 (zh-min-nan), 暗光鸟 (zh-min-nan) ‎(àm-kong-chiáu)
Danish: natteravn c
Dutch: nachtbraker (nl) m, avondmens (nl) m
Faroese: náttarravnur m
Finnish: yökyöpeli (fi)
French: couche-tard (fr) m, f, noctambule (fr) m, f, oiseau de nuit (fr) m
German: Nachteule (de) f, Nachtschwärmer (de) f, Nachtmensch (de) pl
Greek: νυχτερινός τύπος m ‎(nychterinós týpos), νυχτοπούλι (el) m, f, n ‎(nychtopoúli), ξενύχτης (el) m ‎(xenýchtis)
Hungarian: éjjeli bagoly

Icelandic: nátthrafn m
Italian: nottambulo m
Japanese: 宵っ張り ‎(よいっぱり, yoippari), 宵っぱり ‎(よいっぱり, yoippari), 夜更かし ‎(よふかし, yofukashi), 夜型 ‎(よるがた, yorugata)
Polish: nocny marek (pl)
Portuguese: noctâmbulo m, noctívago (pt) m
Russian: сова́ (ru) f ‎(sová), полуно́чник (ru) m ‎(polunóčnik)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ноћна птица

Latin: noćna ptica (sh)
Spanish: ave nocturna (es), noctámbulo (es) m, trasnochador (es) m, noctívago (es)
Swedish: nattuggla (sv) c