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# candlestick

«candlestick» in Mova's school dictionary: **A holder for a candle, with a hole or spike on top** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a candlestick, candlesticks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A holder for a candle, with a hole or spike on top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/#m1)

2) (money, charts) A candlestick chart shows prices going up and down with bars that look like candles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and stories, people carried candlesticks to bed. In the board game Cluedo, the candlestick is one of the weapons. Nursery rhyme: «Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick.» In churches, tall candlesticks stand on the altar.

### examples

- Grandma polished the silver candlesticks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/#x1)
- Jack jumped over the candlestick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/#x2)
- It was Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the library! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/#x3)
- Two brass candlesticks stood on the altar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/#x4)
- She carried a candlestick up the dark stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/#x5)
- Hundreds of tapers burnt upon golden candlesticks, and shed a light like the brightest day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/#x6)

### note

One word. Countable: candlesticks.

### In the corpora

- [He wears a long dressing-gown, carries a flat candlestick, and «had probably been on his way to bed».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/13/)
- [And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.734/)
- [and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of incense,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.915/)
- [and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its vessels, and the altar of incense;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.934/)
- [the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1060/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «candlestick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/candlestick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.