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# nightingale

noun (a nightingale, nightingales); proper noun (Nightingale — a name)

«nightingale» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A nightingale is a small brown bird famous for its beautiful, loud, varied song, which it often sings at night as well as in the day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#m1)
2. (a name) Florence Nightingale was an English nurse in Victorian times who made hospitals cleaner and helped start modern nursing; she was called «the Lady with the Lamp». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#m2)

### In the lessons

In nature lessons and poems, the nightingale's song is a symbol of beauty and spring nights. In history lessons, Florence Nightingale cared for soldiers in the Crimean War and used charts of numbers to show that clean hospitals saved lives. In stories, a «nightingale voice» means a lovely singing voice.

### Examples

- A nightingale sang in the bushes all night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#x1)
- Nightingales are plain brown but sing beautifully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#x2)
- Florence Nightingale carried a lamp on her night rounds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#x3)
- Florence Nightingale used diagrams to show why soldiers were dying. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#x4)
- The poet wrote an ode to a nightingale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#x5)
- Nightingales fly to Africa for the winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#x6)
- Her singing voice is like a nightingale's. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#x7)
- Then the Nightingale began to sing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/#x8)

### Note

Countable: nightingales. Capital N for Florence Nightingale. Despite the name, nightingales also sing in the daytime; the night song is what made them famous.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «nightingale» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nightingale/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«nightingale» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nightingale.html) on Mova free.