starlight

[stahr-lahyt]

noun

1. the light lights emanating from the stars.

starlight

/ ˈstɑːˌlaɪt /

noun

1. the light emanating from the stars

adjective

1. of or like starlight

2. Also: starlit. illuminated by starlight

Word History and Origins

Origin of starlight¹

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; star, light ¹

Example Sentences

As if that isn’t cool enough, both of the stars in this pair are brown dwarfs — a kind of almost-star that never got big enough to ‘switch on’ its starlight.

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Eve’s increasing success as a playwright begins to short-circuit her life, so she seeks a quiet starlight writing retreat — or permanent exile — in the hills.

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But the glare from all that vivid starlight has gotten in the way of seeing his work for what it is — an evolving artistic project that illuminates acute elements of contemporary portraiture.

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But the more foundational idea of a legal right to darkness — or, complimentarily, a right to starlight — has not been tested in courts.

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This much starlight implies that the galaxy is several hundreds of millions of times the mass of the Sun!

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