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night·in·gale (nīt′'n gāl′)
noun
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′)
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Possessives
- song: When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
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.
Adjective modifier
- real: When it was wound up, it sounded like the real nightingale.
Modifies a noun
- floor: They are called nightingale floors because they sing like birds as people walk across them.
Noun used with modifier
- florence: Type the words florence nightingale into the Search box and click the Go button to see the results.
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Hark! ah, the Nightingale! The tawny-throated! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! harköwhat pain!
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.
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!
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