What does night light mean?
Night light means (countable) A small, dim light or lamp left on overnight..
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/ˈnaɪtˌlaɪt/ · noun
(countable) A small, dim light or lamp left on overnight..
1988, Joseph Brodsky, "Gorbunov and Gorchakov" Canto 13 in In Urania, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 165, Your light cannot drive off the dark from me— / not any more than night-lights by the bed / drive off my dreams.
He put a small nightlight in the bathroom to find his way around in the dark.
She had brought in with her the night-light that had been burning outside her door. She blew it out.
They made you give up / your nightlight / and your teddy / and your thumb.
The floor-cloth deadened his footsteps as he moved in that direction through the obscurity, which was broken only by the faintest reflected night-light from without.
[…] the man held up two small objects faintly twinkling in the nightlight;
Their made-up faces were garish in the night-light and as they walked they stared fixedly ahead, afraid to make a sideways glance in case it should be called soliciting.
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Night light means (countable) A small, dim light or lamp left on overnight..
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1988, Joseph Brodsky, "Gorbunov and Gorchakov" Canto 13 in In Urania, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 165, Your light cannot drive off the dark from me— / not any more than night-lights by the bed / drive off my dreams.
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