starlight
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]starlight (usually uncountable, plural starlights)
- Light emitted from stars other than the Sun.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
- 1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
- Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]light emitted from stars other than the Sun
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