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# starlight

«starlight» in Mova's school dictionary: **the light that comes from the stars** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (starlight, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Starlight is the light that comes from the stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#m1)

2) It is the faint light you see on a clear night when there is no moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about space, starlight travels huge distances; the light we see from a star left it long ago, so we see the star as it was. In stories and poems, starlight makes a scene magical and quiet. Phrases: «by starlight», «twinkling starlight».

### examples

- We walked home by starlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#x1)
- Starlight shone on the frozen lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#x2)
- Starlight from far stars takes a very long time to reach us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#x3)
- In the city, street lamps hide the starlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#x4)
- The owl hunted by starlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#x5)
- The poem describes silver starlight on the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#x6)
- It was a lovely starlight night in the beginning of September, and the air was mild and still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/starlight/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «starlight», not «a starlight». Starlight is very dim compared with moonlight or sunlight. Fact: the Sun is a star too, but we call its light «sunlight». Stars seem to twinkle because their light passes through moving air.

### In the corpora

- [The James Webb Space Telescope can study the air of some exoplanets by looking at starlight that has passed through it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/12/)
- [Splitting starlight into a rainbow, called a spectrum, shows dark lines that reveal which elements the star is made of.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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