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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nightingale \Night"in*gale\, n. [OE. nihtegale,nightingale, AS. nihtegale; niht night + galan to sing, akin to E. yell; cf. D. nachtegaal, OS. nahtigala, OHG. nahtigala, G. nachtigall, Sw. n["a]ktergal, Dan. nattergal. See Night, and Yell.]
(Zo["o]l.) A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird ( Luscinia megarhynchos syn. Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
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(Zo["o]l.) A larger species ( Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Mock nightingale. (Zo["o]l.) See Blackcap, n., 1 (a) .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English næctigalæ, nihtegale, compound formed in Proto-Germanic (cognates: Dutch nachtegaal, German Nachtigall) from *nakht- "night" (see night) + *galon "to sing," related to Old English giellan "yell" (see yell (v.)). With parasitic -n- that appeared mid-13c. Dutch nightingale "frog" is attested from 1769. In Japanese, "nightingale floor" is said to be the term for boards that creak when you walk on them.\n
\nFrench rossignol (Old French lousseignol) is, with Spanish ruiseñor, Portuguese rouxinol, Italian rosignuolo, from Vulgar Latin *rosciniola, dissimilated from Latin lusciniola "nightingale," diminutive of luscinia "nightingale."
Wiktionary
n. A European songbird, ''Luscinia megarhynchos'', of the family Muscicapidae.
WordNet
n. European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song [syn: Luscinia megarhynchos]
English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910) [syn: Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp]
Wikipedia
Nightingale is a progressive rock/ metal band from Örebro in Sweden.
The common nightingale is a songbird found in Eurasia.
Nightingale may also refer to:
Nightingale: A New Musical is a musical (described by the composer as a children's opera) in one act, with book, music and lyrics by Charles Strouse. It is based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Nightingale, and tells the story of a Chinese emperor who learns, nearly too late, that wealth cannot buy happiness.
The work premiered at the Buxton Festival and then in London at the Lyric Hammersmith beginning on December 18, 1982 with a cast including Sarah Brightman as the title character, Nightingale. In the U.S. a staged reading of the show was given by the First All Children's Theatre in New York in May 1982. The group then gave a preview of the work in New York in March 1983 before the North American premiere at "The Barns" at Wolf Trap, Wolf Trap, Virginia, in April 1983. Since then, the show has been performed numerous times throughout the world.
A cast album was released in 1985 with the London cast.
"Nightingale" is the 154th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the eighth episode of the seventh season.
Nightingale is a ballet created in 1939 by Aleksey Yermolayev and Fedor Lopukhov to music by Mikhail Kroshner. The libretto by Yermolayev and Yuri Slonimsky is based on a story by Źmitrok Biadula. Nightingale is the first Belarusian ballet to be staged at the National Opera and Ballet of Belarus, on 5 November 1939.
Nightingale is the second studio album by the folk rock project Erland and the Carnival, released in 2011 on the Full Time Hobby label. The album combines British folk themes with original rock music and received largely positive reviews." Dusted Magazine stated that "Nightingale is a distinctive exemplar of folk revivalism for the age of indie," and This is Fake DIY marked the album as the point where the band had "proven their worth in instrumental experimentation."
Nightingale is a 1998 recital album of Japanese classical songs by countertenor Yoshikazu Mera.
"Nightingale" is a song by American singer Demi Lovato from her fourth studio album Demi (2013). The song was written by Lovato, Anne Preven, Matt Rad, and Felicia Barton, while production was helmed by Rad and Preven served as a vocal producer.
Nightingale is a 2014 American drama film directed by Elliott Lester and written by Frederick Mensch. The film stars David Oyelowo. The film premiered on HBO on May 29, 2015.
"Nightingale" is a song written by Carole King and David Palmer. "Nightingale" first appeared on her top-selling album Wrap Around Joy, which was released in mid-July 1974, but was released as a single in December. The song has since been put on many of her compilation albums, including her certified platinum album Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago.
The song, like the album Wrap Around Joy, got off to a slow start, but eventually charted high. "Nightingale" peaked at number nine on March 1, 1975, on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent the week before at number one on the Easy Listening chart.
Nightingale is a free, open source audio player and web browser based on the Songbird media player source code. As such, Nightingale's engine is based on the Mozilla XULRunner with libraries such as the GStreamer media framework and libtag providing media tagging and playback support, amongst others. Since official support for Linux was dropped by Songbird in April, 2010, Linux-using members of the Songbird community diverged and created the project. By contrast to Songbird, which is primarily licensed under the GPLv2 but includes artwork that is not freely distributable, Nightingale is free software, licensed under the GPLv2, with portions under the MPL and BSD licenses.
Nightingale is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:
- Nightingale Baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England
- Albert Nightingale (1923–2006), English footballer
- Andrea Nightingale, American classical scholar
- Annie Nightingale (born 1942), British radio broadcaster
- Anthony Nightingale (born 1947), Hong Kong businessman
- Benedict Nightingale (born 1939), British journalist
- Danny Nightingale (born 1954),British modern pentathlete
- Danny Nightingale (soldier) (born 1975), British soldier
- David Nightingale, English footballer
- Earl Nightingale (1921–1989), American motivational speaker
- Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), British pioneer of modern nursing and statistician
- James Nightingale (born 1986), Papua New Guinean rugby league player
- James Nightingale (footballer), English footballer
- James Nightingale (cricketer) (1840–1917), English cricketer
- Jared Nightingale (born 1982), American ice hockey defenceman
- Jason Nightingale (born 1986), New Zealand rugby player
- John Nightingale (actor) (c.1943–1980), British actor
- John Nightingale (figure skater) (born 1928), American figure skater
- John Nightingale (MP) for Leicester (UK Parliament constituency)
- Joseph Nightingale (1775–1824), English writer and preacher
- Luke Nightingale (born 1980), English footballer
- Lynn Nightingale (born 1956), Canadian figure skater
- Mark Nightingale (born 1967), British jazz trombonists
- Mary Nightingale (born 1963), English newsreader and television presenter
- Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British soul music singer
- Michael Nightingale (1922–1999), English actor
- Neil Nightingale, British naturalist and television producer
- Tunde Nightingale (Earnest Olatunde Thomas) (1922–1981), Nigerian singer and guitarist
- Wally Nightingale (1956–1996), English guitarist of the Sex Pistols
- William Nightingale (1794–1874), English Unitarian, the father of Florence Nightingale
Usage examples of "nightingale".
Nightingale that I apprehended you had sent him thither to inquire into the affair.
Accordingly your path was here beguiled with the warbling of a thousand birds, the full-toned blackbird, the mellow thrush, and the pensive nightingale.
Then followed various untimed periods, during which animal life rose by degrees from mollusk and jellyfish, by plesiosaurus and pterodactyl, horrible monsters, hundreds of feet in length, whose tramp crashed through the woods, or whose flight loaded the groaning air, to the dolphin and the whale in the sea, the horse and the lion on the land, and the eagle, the nightingale, and the bird of paradise in the air.
However, when their conversation on the principal point was over, Allworthy asked Nightingale, Whether he knew one George Seagrim, and upon what business he came to his house?
Even the innocuous nightingales were moralized, spiritualized, turned into citizens and anglicans -- and along with the nightingales, the whole of animate and inanimate Nature.
Shunkin gave the finest of her nightingales the name Tenko, or Drum of Heaven, and loved to listen to it from morning till night.
After several years she managed to train another splendid nightingale, which she also called Tenko and prized as highly.
Besides her lark, Shunkin had been keeping a nightingale which she called Tenko the Third.
When chiffchaff and willow-wren first come they remain in the treetops, but in the summer descend into the lower bushes, and, like the nightingales, come out upon the sward by the wayside.
Black people who had never been near the Keedsler mansion could imitate the Lyre Bird and the Willy Wagtail of Australia, the Golden Oriole of India, the Nightingale and the Chaffinch and the Wren and the Chiffchaff of England itself.
Hales, however, thinks that some particular vale is here alluded to, and argues, with much acumen, that the poet referred to the woodlands close by Athens to the north-west, through which the Cephissus flowed, and where stood the birthplace of Sophocles, who sings of his native Colonus as frequented by nightingales.
After my first night under the stars--wondrous night of wakefulness and hopeful music, throughout which I lay entranced at the foot of a wooded hill and was never for a moment uncompanioned by nightingale, cicala and firefly--I began to suffer from footsoreness, a bodily affliction against which romance, that certain salve for the maladies of the soul, is no remedy, or very little.
The whole garden of Gethsemane was just then pealing with the song of nightingales.
Nightingale had given orders for chairs to be sent for, a circumstance of distress occurred to Jones, which will appear very ridiculous to many of my readers.
They then separated, Nightingale, to visit his Nancy, and Jones in quest of the old gentleman.