Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The night of the day on which a person is born; the anniversary of that night.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
night of someone'sbirth . - noun The
anniversary of that night in subsequent years.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One night in May — it was her birthnight, and twenty years since she had left her home — Hugh Graham sat in the room she had hallowed in his boyish days.
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One night in May — it was her birthnight, and twenty years since she had left her home — Hugh Graham sat in the room she had hallowed in his boyish days.
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It is probable the star had shone in the very birthnight: and thence-forward to this very time it had disappeared.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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London is thin, & the only party I have heard of is one at Mrs Knox's on the birthnight.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling
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The Govr gave the Gentn a very gentile entertainment at noon, and a ball at night for the ladies on the Kings birthnight, at wch was a Crowded Audience of Gentn and ladies.
Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday
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If he were a Chinese peasant, for instance, and came from a land of fireworks, he would naturally suppose that he had happened to arrive at a great firework display in celebration of something; perhaps the Sacred Emperor's birthday, or rather birthnight.
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He had been unexpectedly startled on Ruth's birthnight by a vague something in Kemp's eyes.
Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1898
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Good Lord! to see those two at the birthnight supper was a sight indeed.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Among the gentlemen who were her courtiers there was much talk of the fashionable rake Sir John Oxon, who, having appeared at her birthnight supper, had become madly enamoured of her, and had stayed in the country at Eldershawe Park and laid siege to her with all his forces and with much fervour of feeling besides.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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And with a maddening clutch about his heart he saw again the tragic searching in her eyes when she had said, "Then you have known me long, your Grace," and afterwards, so soft and strangely slow, "Then you might have been one of those who came to my birthnight feast, and saw my life begin."
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
qms commented on the word birthnight
As witches while stirring a curse might
The hidden ones whooped on that birthnight;
They drank until dawn
To honor their spawn
While moon men writhed in the earthlight.
April 2, 2019