Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The shine or light of stars; starlight. [Rare.]
Wiktionary
- n. rare, poetic starlight
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare The light of the stars.
Etymologies
- star + shine (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This, then, was the end of it all -- of the carpets, and furniture, and the little rented house; of the meetings and walking out, the thrilling nights of starshine, the deliciousness of surrender, the loving and the being loved.”
“For a long time they were content to walk together in the evenings, or to sit side by side on a bench in the park, neither uttering a word for an hour at a time, merely gazing into each other's eyes, too faintly luminous in the starshine to be a cause for self-consciousness and embarrassment.”
“From our high Atacama perch, the visible universe held an infinite collection of starshine.”
“All about me were nobleness of purpose and heroism of effort, and my days and nights were sunshine and starshine, all fire and dew, with before my eyes, ever burning and blazing, the Holy”
“The witchery of starshine played in her eyes and about her mouth.”
“I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance.”
“He was smiling to himself as he looked up into her virginal face, so innocent, so penetratingly innocent, that its purity seemed always to enter into him, driving out of him all dross and bathing him in some ethereal effulgence that was as cool and soft and velvety as starshine.”
“It was aglow with light, as the sea itself, and the eyes were flashing in the starshine.”
“All about me were nobleness of purpose and heroism of effort, and my days and nights were sunshine and starshine, all fire and dew, with before my eyes, ever burning and blazing, the Holy Grail, Christ's own Grail, the warm human, long-suffering and maltreated but to be rescued and saved at the last. ”
“About sunsets of gentle fire, warm but not burning, satin black nights lit only by starshine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘starshine’.
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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adj. + adv.
vainglorious, lanuginous, altiloquent, ambisextrous, desiderative, flothery, liquescent, logoed, autotelic, tropology, erotogenic, crocky and 108 more...
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My Little Ponies 3
A list of My Little Pony names from the G3 collection. 2003-present
wysteria, rainbow dash, sweetberry, sunny daze, kimono, minty, pinkie pie, sparkleworks, star swirl, autumn skye, butterscotch, moondancer and 361 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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S is for Sweater Puppy
My S Words
secret agent, sweater puppy, skivvies, soda jerk, surly, space madness, sad sack, sadsack, scoundrel, scrabble, shaken teddy bear..., saucy and 181 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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Moon, Sun, and Stars
About all that shines
moonswept, sunstroke, sunniness, moonlight, moonbow, moonshadow, moon, sunshiny, moonbeam, effulgence, syzygy, coruscate and 10 more...
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compounds
blatherskite, buckskin, fishmonger, hoarfrost, applesauce, moonshine, fiddlehead, snickerdoodle, lodestar, lifeblood, brainchild, starry-eyed and 17 more...
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Sleep
lux, glow, lustre, glisten, moonlight, wonderstruck, dreamt, dormancy, trance, starshine, nightfall, dusk and 5 more...
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fantasy
masquerade, spiral, faerie, gnome, twinkle, aurora, haunt, gargoyle, passion, starshine, gargoyle, crimson and 61 more...
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Light
words about light
lucent, lambent, glimmering, aglow, pearly, shimmery, scintillation, flouresce, starshine, halogen, mercury vapor, sodium vapor and 28 more...
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Words that sound nice
liquidation, allspice, moonshine, starshine, bumble, arouse, kindle, valiant, chitter, Gypsy, feral, evanescent and 21 more...
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words
technicolor, amelia, starshine, saucerlike, mermaid, hummingbird, ophelia, fontanelle, lilith, magdalene, tangerine, glamorama and 34 more...
Tweets
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yarb Hmm. I can't say I felt ravished by Proust. Apr 6, 2011
frogapplause "A long paragraph is like a day of making love: lollygag, twine, tease, tense, breathe, push, pull, withhold, surrender, starshine, release."--Unknown Apr 5, 2011