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birthnight

[ burth-nahyt ]

noun

  1. the night of a person's birth, especially a birthday celebration for royalty.
  2. the anniversary of such a date.
  3. the celebration of a royal birthday.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of birthnight1

First recorded in 1620–30; birth + night
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Example Sentences

It was night at Boston, the birthnight of one of the leading events in the history of the world.

How gladly would I have recompensed the forester who lit up a brake on my birthnight, which else had warmed him half the winter!

He had been unexpectedly startled on Ruth's birthnight by a vague something in Kemp's eyes.

This was my first entrance into fashionable life at one of Madame Bodisco's birthnight balls.

Her high-mettled prancing at the last birthnight ball nearly set the room in a roar.

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