candlelight

[kan-dl-lahyt]

noun

1. the light of a candle.

2. a dim artificial light.

3. twilight; dusk.

candlelight

/ ˈkændəlˌlaɪt /

noun

1. 1. the light from a candle or candles

      they ate by candlelight

   2. ( as modifier )

      a candlelight dinner

2. dusk; evening

Word History and Origins

Origin of candlelight¹

before 1000; Middle English candel-liht, Old English candel-lēoht. See candle, light ¹

Example Sentences

The candlelight flickered in the lenses of Edward Ashton’s glasses as if his eyes might shoot flaming arrows at her.

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It was no ghost, merely a gray-furred pelt stuffed with sawdust and outfitted with yellow glass eyes that reflected the candlelight in a hauntingly lifelike way.

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Some fancy pants politicians & their wives came aboard to take a peek at the obelisk by candlelight.

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Manzo was shot multiple times Saturday at a candlelight Day of the Dead festival that he was attending with his family in downtown Uruapan.

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Jewish student groups had regularly gathered on campuses, including last week, for candlelight vigils, songs and prayer services to honor dead and living hostages in Gaza and their families two years after the Oct.

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