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nightfires

nightfires is the plural of nightfire.

Meaning of nightfire

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
  2. A will o' the wisp.

Questions about nightfires

What is nightfires the plural of?
Nightfires is the plural of nightfire.

Words near nightfires in the dictionary

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

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