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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Nightingale: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  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 (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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