Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The light from the stars.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The light proceeding from the stars.
- n. Hence A faint or feeble light.
- Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The light given by the stars.
- adj. Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the light of the stars
Examples
“I would argue that the electromagnetic spectrum of starlight is also a code which can be decoded to discover, among other things, the chemical composition of the star that emitted the light.”
“Phrynus looked down at his bronze hand glowing in starlight, restless, itching now with lust.”
“She was born of the thin starlight and the brittle dawn-light, in the morning of the world, and she is the one woman of all women to me.”
“More beautiful than starlight is the face of the lover when the Voice and the Vision enfold him.”
“Dr. Udry said he and Dr. Sasselov would be observing the Gliese system with a Canadian space telescope named Most, to see if there are any dips in starlight caused by the new planet.”
“Twilight seems like a great book. starlight is a really good book too! on 21 Apr 2006 at 7: 39 pm Gingertail hey lemonstripe where did u see that starlight cd???????????”
“Also there are YEC cosmolgies that explain starlight and time:”
“She was born of the thin starlight and the brittle dawn-light before the sun ...”
“The starlight was a white burst against his irises; for a moment he could see nothing else.”
Simon & Schuster: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
“[Page 584] the starlight was above us, the blaze of wax lights and chandeliers lit up every hall around the court, and coloured lamps and flowers were everywhere.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘starlight’.
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Home Sweet Home
Actual Towns and Cities with Poetic Names.
If you know where the town is located please put that in the comments. All of mine came out of a zip code directory.phlox, blue mountain, battles wharf, robinwood, blue spring, coffee springs, cottage hill, hazel green, highland home, sunflower, three notch, circle and 94 more...
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vivids's list
picturesque, lovelight, twinkle, agleam, droplet, sunlight, shimmer, epitome, shard, mist, starlight, rain and 23 more...
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More Light!
light, lamp, Betty lamp, lightbulb, floor lamp, lantern, candle, gas mantle, Davy lamp, Geordie lamp, limelight, spotlight and 48 more...
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pretty
pretty words.
nymph, silhouette, cosmic, pixie, illumination, serendipity, starlight, wanderlust, moon, Lyra, lullaby, effervescent and 22 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names I
Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the English Language
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1466 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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christy927's list
...all my favorite words...
chrysalis, mahogany, indigo, elysian, rubenesque, cataclysmic, scythe, archaic, gaelic, trollop, sycamore, canopy and 279 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 271 more...
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Benandanti
All things Light
aureole, aura, aurora borealis, aglow, lucent, lambent, radiant, bright, burn, fire, solstice, brazier and 94 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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