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/ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/ · noun
A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale..
Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare
Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe.
The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales.
And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.
The air, too, was heavy with perfume, and a nightingale, high in the heavens, gave out a cheery song of welcome.
Use nightingale when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nightingale means A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale..
Common synonyms include philomel, florence nightingale, luscinia megarhynchos.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare
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