What is the meaning of nocturnal?
1 : of, relating to, or occurring in the night a nocturnal journey nocturnal activities. 2 : active at night a nocturnal predator nocturnal insects, such as mosquitoes.
How do you say this word nocturnal?
Do you pronounce the h?
The short and simple answer is to pronounce the word as what, with no h sound. However, this is not a universal American pronunciation; some dialects of American English, spoken in the southeastern part of the United States, do say hwhat, but that pronunciation is significantly less common.