Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nightlight

/ˈnaɪtˌlaɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.15 in modern English

Syllables: night-light
IPA: /ˈnaɪtˌlaɪt/

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small, dim light or lamp left on overnight.

Countable

noun

Light that shines at night, such as moonlight or starlight.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"She had brought in with her the night-light that had been burning outside her door. She blew it out."
"They made you give up / your nightlight / and your teddy / and your thumb."
"1988, Joseph Brodsky, "Gorbunov and Gorchakov" Canto 13 in In Urania, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 165, Your light cannot drive off the dark from me— / not any more than night-lights by the bed / drive off my dreams."
"He put a small nightlight in the bathroom to find his way around in the dark."
"The floor-cloth deadened his footsteps as he moved in that direction through the obscurity, which was broken only by the faintest reflected night-light from without."
"[…] the man held up two small objects faintly twinkling in the nightlight;"

Etymology

From night + light.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈnaɪtˌlaɪt/

Usage

Inflected Forms

nightlights (plural) night light (alternative)

Derived Forms

nightlighter

Questions

How do you pronounce nightlight?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnaɪtˌlaɪt/.
What does nightlight mean?: A small, dim light or lamp left on overnight.
Where does nightlight come from?: From night + light.

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