Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Illuminated by starlight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lighted by stars: as, a starlit night.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lighted by the stars; starlight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
illuminated bystarlight
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lighted only by stars
Etymologies
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Examples
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After dinner, Khalili and Ed were walking in the garden under a starlit sky.
Nick Mills: Killing the Cranes Nick Mills 2011
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Behind barbwire the pasture made a chain of starlit humps.
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A presence suddenly came to his mind and he looked up at the starlit sky to see a shooting star streak across the sky.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Chozen’s Review Forum 2009
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After dinner, Khalili and Ed were walking in the garden under a starlit sky.
Nick Mills: Killing the Cranes Nick Mills 2011
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After dinner, Khalili and Ed were walking in the garden under a starlit sky.
Nick Mills: Killing the Cranes Nick Mills 2011
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Crimson dawn cloaks the starlit night,devoured flesh canvassed fright.
Elixir Gyanban 2011
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He spun around two or three times, taking in the starlit landscape, and the figures of the rest of the away team.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Over a series of starlit lakeside conversations, he explained this was not the case.
'This is fun. . . . Just do it for a little while and see what happens.' Ellen McCarthy 2010
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Crimson dawn cloaks the starlit night,devoured flesh canvassed fright.
Elixir Gyanban 2011
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After dinner, Khalili and Ed were walking in the garden under a starlit sky.
Nick Mills: Killing the Cranes Nick Mills 2011
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