starlight

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The moon set; the starlight was after a long, long time succeeded by the dawn of waking birds, and of waking city, too--for up from below rose an ever louder roar like a rising storm.

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  1. noun The light from the stars.

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  • If one of our ships goes from one to another as fast as the starlight, the voyage takes many centuries. —  The Urth of the New Sun
  • When I led him to a patch of starlight, his face was the face of one who wanders amid strange dreams. —  The Urth of the New Sun
  • The moon set; the starlight was after a long, long time succeeded by the dawn of waking birds, and of waking city, too--for up from below rose an ever louder roar like a rising storm. —  Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
  • (C) Airey's experiment proved that the starlight was already coming into the earth at an angle, being carried along by the rotating aether;
  • The moon set; the starlight was after a long, long time succeeded by the dawn of waking birds, and of waking city, too -- for up from below rose an ever louder roar like a rising storm. —  Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
 

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/ˈstɑrlaɪt/
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