starlight
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/
Noun

starlight (uncountable)

  1. Light emitted from stars other than the Sun.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
      Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Translations
  • French: lumière des étoiles, lumière d'étoile
  • German: Sternenlicht
  • Portuguese: luz das estrelas
  • Russian: звёздный свет



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