starlight

English

On a clear night in the country, far from most light pollution, the starlight (sense 1.1) may guide you, once your night vision adjusts.

starlight (sense 1.1)

Etymology

From star +‎ light.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/

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Noun

starlight (usually uncountable, plural starlights)

2. Light emitted from stars.

   Hypernyms: natural light < light < EMR, electromagnetic radiation < radiation < energy

   Hyponyms: sunlight, daylight, moonlight

   Meronym: starbeams

   2. (idiomatic, usually) Light emitted by those other than the Sun.

      Coordinate terms: sunlight, daylight, moonlight

      • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

        Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

      • 1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:

        Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.

Derived terms

• starlight blue
• starlight problem
• starlight tour
• starlit

Translations

light emitted from stars other than the Sun

• Bulgarian: звездна светлина f (zvezdna svetlina)
• Catalan: celístia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 星光 (zh) (xīngguāng)

• Dzongkha: སྐར་མའི་འོད (skar ma'i 'od)
• Esperanto: stellumo
• Finnish: tähtien valo
• French: lumière des étoiles f, lumière d'étoile f
• German: Sternenlicht (de) n
• Greek: αστρικό φως n (astrikó fos)
• Hungarian: csillagfény (hu)
• Hunsrik: Sternelicht n
• Indonesian: sinar bintang
• Japanese: 星の光 (ほしのひかり, hoshi no hikari), 星明かり (ほしあかり, hoshiakari)
• Khmer: ពន្លឺផ្កាយ (pɔɔnlɨɨpkaay), តារារស្មី (taariəsməy)
• Korean: 별빛 (byeolbit)
• Latin: lūx stēllāris f, lūx stēllārum f
• Manx: soilshey rollageagh m
• Polish: światło gwiazd n
• Portuguese: luz das estrelas f
• Russian: звёздный свет m (zvjózdnyj svet), свет звёзд m (svet zvjozd)
• Spanish: luz estelar f
• Thai: แสงดาว
• Tibetan: སྐར་མའི་འོད (skar ma'i 'od)
• Vietnamese: ánh sao (vi)

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