nightingale
night·in·gale (nīt′'n gāl′)
noun
any of various small European thrushes (genus Luscinia) with a russet back and buff to white underparts: the male is known for its varied, melodious singing, esp. at night during the breeding season
Etymology: ME nigtingale, for earlier nihtegale < OE (akin to Ger nachtigall) < niht, night + base of galan, to sing, akin to giellan, yell
Night·in·gale (nīt′'n gāl′)
Nightingale, Florence 1820-1910; Eng. nurse in the Crimean War: regarded as the founder of modern nursing
Possessives
- song: When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
- voice: A rich, full strain of the divinest melody streamed forth from a remote part of the hall the nightingale's voice!
Converse of object
- hear: The best time to hear nightingales at Paxton is at dawn or dusk, in scrub along the Haul Road or the Heronry Trail.
- include: Along this road nature lovers will enjoy the sounds and sights of numerous birds in the many large trees, including nightingales.
- sing: There were also plenty of whinchats and a singing nightingale despite it being 16.00.
- force: Recent research in Germany has shown that urban noise can force nightingales to sing so loudly that they break European sound pollution regulations!
- see: We also saw another nightingale, but, again, could not decide on the species.
- do: No more does the ardent nightingale carol its joyous songs, and the sweet and holy melodies of the immortal dove are hushed.
Adjective modifier
- real: When it was wound up, it sounded like the real nightingale.
- artificial: One evening, however, in the middle of a song, the artificial nightingale broke down.
- little: Even Death was so infatuated by the song that he said: " Go on singing, little nightingale, go on singing!
- ardent: No more does the ardent nightingale carol its joyous songs, and the sweet and holy melodies of the immortal dove are hushed.
- brown: In this beautiful story, an Emperor is amazed when he finds true joy in the simple song of a small brown nightingale.
Modifies a noun
- floor: They are called nightingale floors because they sing like birds as people walk across them.
- singing: It was warm and very pleasant; nightingales singing, swallows swooping, spring flowers everywhere and even a wild tortoise!
- song: During spring and early summer nightingale song drifts over the heaths.
- ward: Nightingale wards are being removed and today we have had the wonderful announcement that Clatterbridge will be part of the linear accelerator program.
- population: Experts have also noted a significant decline in owl and nightingale populations as well.
- territory: At Paxton Pits nature reserve, six nightingale territories in scrub were selected for invertebrate sampling.
Noun used with modifier
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When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assured for Itylus, For theThracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil and all the pain.
'Before she came,'said a soldier,'there was cussin'and swearin', but after that it was 'oly as a church.' The most cherished privilege of the fighting man was abandoned for the sake of Miss Nightingale.
Hark! ah, the Nightingale! The tawny-throated! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! harköwhat pain!
This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly: And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'TheTravellers' Rest', And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.
And hark! the Nightingale begins its song, 'Most musical, most melancholy' bird! A melancholy bird?his song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature!
Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late, And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate. 556
Ask me no more whither dost haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note.
What bird so sings, yet so does wail? O 'tis the ravished nightingale. Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu, she cries, And still her woes at midnight rise.
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