Usually means: Songbird known for nocturnal singing.
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  1. nightingale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Nightingale, nightingale: Merriam-Webster
  3. nightingale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nightingale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nightingale: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Nightingale, nightingale: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nightingale, nightingale: Wordnik
  8. nightingale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nightingale, nightingale: Wiktionary
  10. nightingale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nightingale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nightingale: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Nightingale, nightingale: Dictionary.com
  14. nightingale: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Nightingale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nightingale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nightingale: Rhymezone
  19. Nightingale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nightingale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Nightingale: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. nightingale: FreeDictionary.org
  23. nightingale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Nightingale: The Word Detective
  25. Nightingale: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. nightingale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Nightingale: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

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  1. nightingale: Encyclopedia

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  2. Nightingale: Medical dictionary

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  2. Nightingale: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. nightingale: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nightingale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. nightingale: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Nightingale)

▸ noun:  A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.
▸ noun:  A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
Florence Nightingale, luscinia megarhynchos, common nightingale, thrush nightingale, mock nightingale, nighthawk, bulbul, Philomela, Eurasian nightjar, night-raven, more...

Opposite:
day bird, diurnal bird, daytime singer

Types:
Common, Oriental, Siberian, Chinese, Japanese, more...

Phrases:
Florence Nightingale, swedish nightingale, Nightingale Pledge, thrush nightingale, virginia nightingale, more...

Adjectives:
little, real, sweet, swedish, wakeful, young, brown, chinese, dear, bright, old

Colors:
    midnight blue,     charcoal,     slate gray,     forest green,     deep plum, more...


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Similar:
Florence Nightingale, luscinia megarhynchos, common nightingale, thrush nightingale, mock nightingale, nighthawk, bulbul, Philomela, Eurasian nightjar, night-raven, more...

Opposite:
day bird, diurnal bird, daytime singer

Types:
Common, Oriental, Siberian, Chinese, Japanese, more...

Phrases:
Florence Nightingale, swedish nightingale, Nightingale Pledge, thrush nightingale, virginia nightingale, nightingale floor, Nightingale ward, nightingale florence, mock nightingale, scotch nightingale, more...

Adjectives:
little, real, sweet, swedish, wakeful, young, brown, chinese, dear, bright, old

Colors:
    midnight blue,     charcoal,     slate gray,     forest green,     deep plum, more...



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