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nightfire

nightfire noun: a fire that is lit outdoors at night.

Noun

nightfire (plural nightfires)

  1. A fire that is lit outdoors at night.
    • So I go on with my clowns & ponies, angels floating over peasants warming themselves by nightfires, devils, laborers, simple country girls, of donkey-bodied men & mystic bursts of rain over symbolic volcanoes.1979, John Brandi, Diary from a Journey to the Middle of the World, page 40
    • I mean to have them all garrisoned again within the year, and nightfires burning before their gates.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 884
  2. A will o' the wisp.

Forms of nightfire

pluralnightfires

Origin of nightfire

From night + fire.

Questions about nightfire

What does nightfire mean?
Nightfire means a fire that is lit outdoors at night.
What part of speech is nightfire?
Nightfire is a noun.
What is the plural of nightfire?
The plural of nightfire is nightfires.

Words near nightfire in the dictionary

  1. nightfall
  2. nightfalls
  3. nightfaring
  4. nightfear
  5. nightfears
  6. nightfire
  7. nightfires
  8. nightfish
  9. nightfishes
  10. nightfowl
  11. nightfowls

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