nightingale
A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for…A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.
» I heard a nightingale.
Ich habe eine Nachtigall gehört.
Я слышал соловья.
Я чув солов'я.
Я почув солов'я.
Я почула солов'я.
Я чула солов'я.
Meaning
2 sensesA Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.
Nachtigall
солове́йsolovéj, солове́йкоsolovéjko
солове́йsolovéj, солове́йкоsolovéjko
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- European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song
- English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)
Examples
33 sentencesI heard a nightingale.
Я чув солов'я.
ruЯ слышал соловья.
deIch habe eine Nachtigall gehört.
Is that a bullfinch or a nightingale?
The nightingale was on a branch.
Соловей сидів на гілці.
Florence Nightingale is famous as the woman who began professional nursing.
Soraya can sing like a nightingale.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, niȝtingale, alteration (with intruInherited from Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, niȝtingale, alteration (with intrusive n) of nyghtgale, nightegale, from Old English nihtegala, nihtegale (“nightingale; night-raven”, literally “night-singer”), from Proto-West Germanic *nahtigalā (“nightingale”), equivalent to a compound of night + gale. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal (“nightingale”), Dutch nachtegaal (“nightingale”), German Low German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), Danish nattergal (“thrush nightingale”), Swedish näktergal (“nightingale”), Icelandic næturgali (“nightingale”).
Named after Florence Nightingale.
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Forms
plural: nightingales| Singular | nightingale |
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Synonyms
4 synonyms- European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song:Luscinia megarhynchos
- English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910):Florence NightingaleLady with the Lamp