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starlight

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt//

Light emitted from stars.

noun

  1. 1

    Light emitted from stars.

    Meronym: starbeams

  2. 2

    Light emitted from stars. Light emitted by those other than the Sun.

    Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

    Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.

Etymology

From star + light.

Forms

plural
starlights
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).