0 the evening before a day when children have to go to school. Adults also use this expression informally to describe the evening before a day when they have to get up to go to work. :
He takes a picture from her room, a reminder of their high school night in question.
He gives it to her hoping that she will allow him to go, but she unsurprisingly refuses since it's a school night.
He spends school nights at home glued to his textbooks and scratching out essays in his composition tablet.
Meeting times include activity periods during school and occasionally school nights.
Pages are subject to a strict curfew (generally 9:00 p.m. on school nights and 10:00 p.m. during the weekend) and are expected to maintain high standards.
Cliff responds by asking her if she went to school that day and that it was a school night.
Carter tells her to ask her parents if they would allow her to take him out on a school night, as they normally would not.