nightingale
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++nigh·tin·gale /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/ noun [countable] HBBa small bird that sings very beautifully, especially at night 夜莺
Examples from the Corpus
nightingale• A sweet spirit of holy song came forth in notes like that of a nightingale and it filled the whole building.• I have seen Shiraz and its roses and nightingales, which Gide wrote about but did not see.• What this suggests is that nightingales and bowerbirds have transferred their color to their songs and bowers.• Pan made the pipe of reeds which can sing as sweetly as the nightingale in spring.• Night time is the best time to hear the nightingale - when it sings alone.• Two nightingales in the Emperor's birdcage, eh?Origin nightingale Old English nihtegale “night-singer”nigh·tin·gale nounChineseSyllable
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Nightingale
Nightingale, Florence
(1820–1910) an English nurse who became greatly admired when she set up a hospital for soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. She became known as the Lady with the Lamp, because she walked around the hospital in the evenings with a lamp to check that everything was in order. She set up a school for nurses, making nursing (=the job of being a nurse) into a real profession. Someone who cares for ill people is sometimes compared to Florence Nightingale.
Nightingale, Florence
(1820–1910) an English nurse who became greatly admired when she set up a hospital for soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. She became known as the Lady with the Lamp, because she walked around the hospital in the evenings with a lamp to check that everything was in order. She set up a school for nurses, making nursing (=the job of being a nurse) into a real profession. Someone who cares for ill people is sometimes compared to Florence Nightingale.
nightingale
nigh‧tin‧gale /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/ noun [countable]
nigh‧tin‧gale /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/
noun [countable] Language: Old English
Origin: nihtegale 'night-singer'
a small bird that sings very beautifully, especially at night
Origin: nihtegale 'night-singer'