starlight
noun/ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/
Etymology From star + light.
1
Usually Light emitted from stars.
- Meronym: starbeams
2
Idiomatic, Usually Light emitted by those other than the Sun.
- Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.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:
- Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
- Derived terms
- starlight blue, starlight problem, starlight tour, starlit