starlight

From star +‎ light.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/

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starlight (usually uncountable, plural starlights)

2. Light emitted from stars.

   Hypernyms: natural light < light < EMR, electromagnetic radiation < radiation < energy

   Hyponyms: sunlight, daylight, moonlight

   Meronym: starbeams

   2. (idiomatic, usually) Light emitted by those other than the Sun.

      Coordinate terms: sunlight, daylight, moonlight

      • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

        Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

      • 1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:

        Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.

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