Definitions for Nightingale

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Nightingale night·in·gale

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

IPA: /ˈnaɪt nˌgeɪl, ˈnaɪ tɪŋ-/

Nightingale is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 466 anagrams from letters in Nightingale (aegghiilnnt).

Definitions for Nightingale

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

Origin of Nightingale

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 <

Examples for Nightingale

What does the nightingale care for a golden cage when he can get a twig?

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

I don't mind the bonds, and that sort of thing, but there's this nightingale Cottage.

A nightingale was singing somewhere in the elm trees which bordered the garden.

Fly about as a nightingale, my boy, henceforth and evermore!

It is just the case of Kittermaster, nightingale, or Scottie, isn't it?

Though you go to bed with the nightingale, you rise with the lark.

I was indescribably grieved to read of the death of nightingale.

The nightingale is a sweet bird, but I like the lark better.

It appeared that six miles away the nightingale was an unknown fowl.