Definition of "starlight" [star•light]

• The light from the stars. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "She was born of the thin starlight and the brittle dawn-light before the sun ..."
• "I would argue that the electromagnetic spectrum of starlight is also a code which can be decoded to discover, among other things, the chemical composition of the star that emitted the light."
• "Phrynus looked down at his bronze hand glowing in starlight, restless, itching now with lust."