starlight means light emitted from stars. It carries an Arena rating of 1588, earned across 7 head-to-head judged battles.
starlight is pronounced /ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/.
Why “starlight” is a great word
The faint, distant illumination that reaches the Earth from celestial bodies other than our Sun. From Middle English, a compound of 'star' (from Old English 'steorra') and 'light' (from Old English 'lēoht'), first attested around 1325–75. Unlike "moonlight," which is a borrowed, secondhand glow, or "sunlight," which is our local, overwhelming dominion, starlight is the direct, ancient emission of remote suns. It is the chill silver pinprick in a vast blackness, the soft powdering of the Milky Way across a country sky, the faint, patient glow on a weathered gravestone—the quiet evidence of journeys so long that what we see is only a story of what was, arriving too late to warm anything but the imagination.
Etymology
From star + light.
noun
- Light emitted from stars.“Meronym: starbeams”
- Light emitted from stars.; Light emitted by those other than the Sun.“Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.”