nightingale

/ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/

noun 2name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

euphonious, famous, sweetest

VERB + NIGHTINGALE

beheld, hear, heard, like, sang, sing, sings

NIGHTINGALE + NOUN

character, diversity, samurai

PREP.

in, on, with, without

noun

A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.

Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare

Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe.

noun

A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.

name

A surname.

Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare

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Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe.

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The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales.

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Florence Nightingale is famous as the woman who began professional nursing.

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I heard a Japanese nightingale.

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"The Nightingale Samurai" is a samurai tale full of humanity and humour.

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