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nightingales

nightingales is the plural of nightingale.

Meaning of nightingale

Noun (1)

nightingale (plural nightingales)

  1. A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.
    • Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine earec. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    Synonyms:
    philomel

Noun (2)

nightingale (plural nightingales)

  1. A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.

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Proper noun capitalized: Nightingales

Nightingales

  1. (plural) plural of Nightingale

Phrases with nightingales

Questions about nightingales

What is nightingales the plural of?
Nightingales is the plural of nightingale.
What part of speech is nightingales?
Nightingales is a proper noun.

Words near nightingales in the dictionary

  1. Nightingale ward
  2. Nightingale wards
  3. nightingale-thrush
  4. nightingale-thrushes
  5. nightingale-wren
  6. nightingales
  7. nightish
  8. nightjar
  9. nightjars
  10. nightlamp
  11. nightlamps

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