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nightlights

nightlights is the plural of nightlight.

Meaning of nightlight

Noun

nightlight (countable and uncountable, plural nightlights)

  1. (countable) A small, dim light or lamp left on overnight.
    • She had brought in with her the night-light that had been burning outside her door. She blew it out.1925, D. H. Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Louis L. Martz, editor, Quetzalcoatl, New York: New Directions, published 1998, page 310
  2. (uncountable) Light that shines at night, such as moonlight or starlight.
    • The floor-cloth deadened his footsteps as he moved in that direction through the obscurity, which was broken only by the faintest reflected night-light from without.1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part Six, Chapter III

Questions about nightlights

What is nightlights the plural of?
Nightlights is the plural of nightlight.

Words near nightlights in the dictionary

  1. nightlifers
  2. nightlifes
  3. nightlight
  4. nightlighters
  5. nightlighting
  6. nightlights
  7. nightlike
  8. nightline
  9. nightlines
  10. nightlives
  11. nightlong

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