"starlight" meaning in All languages combined

See starlight on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-starlight.wav Forms: starlights [plural]
Etymology: From star + light. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|star|light}} star + light Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} starlight (usually uncountable, plural starlights)
  1. Light emitted from stars other than the Sun. Wikipedia link: starlight Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Light Derived forms: starlight blue, starlight problem, starlight tour, starlit Translations (light emitted from stars other than the Sun): звездна светлина (zvezdna svetlina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), celístia [feminine] (Catalan), 星光 (xīngguāng) (Chinese Mandarin), སྐར་མའི་འོད (skar ma'i 'od) (Dzongkha), stellumo (Esperanto), tähtien valo (Finnish), tähtivalo (Finnish), lumière des étoiles [feminine] (French), lumière d’étoile [feminine] (French), Sternenlicht [neuter] (German), αστρικό φως (astrikó fos) [neuter] (Greek), csillagfény (Hungarian), Sternelicht [neuter] (Hunsrik), sinar bintang (Indonesian), 星の光 (hoshi no hikari) (alt: ほしのひかり) (Japanese), 星明かり (hoshiakari) (alt: ほしあかり) (Japanese), ពន្លឺផ្កាយ (pɔɔnlɨɨphkaay) (Khmer), តារារស្មី (taariəsməy) (Khmer), 별빛 (byeolbit) (Korean), lūx stēllāris [feminine] (Latin), lūx stēllārum [feminine] (Latin), soilshey rollageagh [masculine] (Manx), światło gwiazd [neuter] (Polish), luz das estrelas [feminine] (Portuguese), звёздный свет (zvjózdnyj svet) [masculine] (Russian), свет звёзд (svet zvjozd) [masculine] (Russian), แสงดาว (Thai), སྐར་མའི་འོད (skar ma'i 'od) (Tibetan), ánh sao (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "star",
        "3": "light"
      },
      "expansion": "star + light",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From star + light.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starlights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "starlight (usually uncountable, plural starlights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Korean terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dzongkha translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hunsrik translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Khmer translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Korean translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Manx translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Thai translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Tibetan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Light",
          "orig": "en:Light",
          "parents": [
            "Energy",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "starlight blue"
        },
        {
          "word": "starlight problem"
        },
        {
          "word": "starlight tour"
        },
        {
          "word": "starlit"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:",
          "text": "Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Light emitted from stars other than the Sun."
      ],
      "id": "en-starlight-en-noun-jtgnTt24",
      "links": [
        [
          "Light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ],
        [
          "Sun",
          "Sun"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zvezdna svetlina",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "звездна светлина"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "celístia"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xīngguāng",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "星光"
        },
        {
          "code": "dz",
          "lang": "Dzongkha",
          "roman": "skar ma'i 'od",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "སྐར་མའི་འོད"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "stellumo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "tähtien valo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "tähtivalo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lumière des étoiles"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lumière d’étoile"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Sternenlicht"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "astrikó fos",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "αστρικό φως"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "csillagfény"
        },
        {
          "code": "hrx",
          "lang": "Hunsrik",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Sternelicht"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "sinar bintang"
        },
        {
          "alt": "ほしのひかり",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hoshi no hikari",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "星の光"
        },
        {
          "alt": "ほしあかり",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hoshiakari",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "星明かり"
        },
        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "pɔɔnlɨɨphkaay",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "ពន្លឺផ្កាយ"
        },
        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "taariəsməy",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "តារារស្មី"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "byeolbit",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "별빛"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lūx stēllāris"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lūx stēllārum"
        },
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "soilshey rollageagh"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "światło gwiazd"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "luz das estrelas"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zvjózdnyj svet",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "звёздный свет"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "svet zvjozd",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "свет звёзд"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "แสงดาว"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "skar ma'i 'od",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "སྐར་མའི་འོད"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
          "word": "ánh sao"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "starlight"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-starlight.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-starlight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-starlight.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-starlight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-starlight.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "starlight"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "starlight blue"
    },
    {
      "word": "starlight problem"
    },
    {
      "word": "starlight tour"
    },
    {
      "word": "starlit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "star",
        "3": "light"
      },
      "expansion": "star + light",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From star + light.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starlights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "starlight (usually uncountable, plural starlights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Korean terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Dzongkha translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Hunsrik translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Khmer translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Manx translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Tibetan translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "en:Light"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:",
          "text": "Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Light emitted from stars other than the Sun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ],
        [
          "Sun",
          "Sun"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "starlight"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-starlight.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-starlight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-starlight.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-starlight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-starlight.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zvezdna svetlina",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "звездна светлина"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "celístia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xīngguāng",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "星光"
    },
    {
      "code": "dz",
      "lang": "Dzongkha",
      "roman": "skar ma'i 'od",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "སྐར་མའི་འོད"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "stellumo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "tähtien valo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "tähtivalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lumière des étoiles"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lumière d’étoile"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Sternenlicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "astrikó fos",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "αστρικό φως"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "csillagfény"
    },
    {
      "code": "hrx",
      "lang": "Hunsrik",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Sternelicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "sinar bintang"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほしのひかり",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hoshi no hikari",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "星の光"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほしあかり",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hoshiakari",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "星明かり"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "pɔɔnlɨɨphkaay",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "ពន្លឺផ្កាយ"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "taariəsməy",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "តារារស្មី"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "byeolbit",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "별빛"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lūx stēllāris"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lūx stēllārum"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "soilshey rollageagh"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "światło gwiazd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luz das estrelas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zvjózdnyj svet",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "звёздный свет"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svet zvjozd",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "свет звёзд"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "แสงดาว"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "skar ma'i 'od",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "སྐར་མའི་འོད"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "light emitted from stars other than the Sun",
      "word": "ánh sao"
    }
  ],
  "word": "starlight"
}

Download raw JSONL data for starlight meaning in All languages combined (7.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.