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nightingale

1

[ nahyt-n-geyl, nahy-ting- ]

noun

  1. any of several small, Old World, migratory birds of the thrush family, especially Luscinia megarhynchos, of Europe, noted for the melodious song of the male, given chiefly at night during the breeding season.


Nightingale

2

[ nahyt-n-geyl, nahy-ting- ]

noun

  1. Florence the Lady with the Lamp, 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.

Nightingale

1

/ ˈnaɪtɪŋˌɡeɪl /

noun

  1. NightingaleFlorence18201910FEnglishMEDICINE: nurse Florence, known as the Lady with the Lamp. 1820–1910, English nurse, famous for her work during the Crimean War. She helped to raise the status and quality of the nursing profession and founded a training school for nurses in London (1860)


nightingale

2

/ ˈnaɪtɪŋˌɡeɪl /

noun

  1. a brownish European songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, with a broad reddish-brown tail: well known for its musical song, usually heard at night
  2. any of various similar or related birds, such as Luscinia luscinia ( thrush nightingale )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nightingale1

1200–50; Middle English nightyngale, nasalized variant of nightegale, Old English nihtegale, cognate with German Nachtigall, literally, night singer (compare Old English galan sing; akin to yell )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nightingale1

Old English nihtegale, literally: night-singer, from night + galan to sing

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Example Sentences

The team selected a relatively smooth patch in a crater named Nightingale.

OSIRIS-REx touched down on a 52-foot-long site called Nightingale, within three feet of the landing target.

Because Nightingale will already have been disturbed by the first touchdown, a second attempt would most likely occur in January at a site called Osprey.

So instead, the team has now settled on Nightingale, a 52-foot-diameter site sitting inside a crater that’s thought to be well preserved.

It just so happens Nightingale is one of the darkest areas of Bennu, which means it might be an undisturbed record of some of the most ancient activity in the solar system.

She reaches across the years, back to A Million Nightingale and onward to Take One Candle Light a Room.

Parsons, who preceded Hopper, was Florence Nightingale compared to her eventual rival.

Menshikova will do very well; she sings the Nightingale song in the second act beautifully.

At this rehearsal, then, she would show what she could do; she would look at no one; she would sing like a blind nightingale.

Every thing, however, was delightfully clean; and as I lay in my bed, I was serenaded by a nightingale.

Presently, a second nightingale began to answer from a distant tree, and the garden was filled with the wild music.

The song of the nightingale in the spring will be the sign of our coming.

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