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Definition of "night-light" []

  • A small, dim light left on all night. (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.

Use "night-light" in a sentence
  • "In the night-light he made out a dark object in the midst of the grass and brought his gun to bear upon it."
  • "Given my troubled relationship with the dark, I needed not one night-light to fall asleep, but three."
  • "With no moonlight and just a pale triangle cast by the hall night-light, I could see only his silhouette and the rectangular shape of the piano."
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