Crossword-Solution: NIGHTINGALE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nightingale | n. | A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song. |
| Nightingale | n. | A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NIGHTINGALE | anagram | GENIALTHING |
We have 32 clues for the answer “NIGHTINGALE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bird (famous nurse) | 1 answer |
| philomel | 1 answer |
| a small bird of the thrush family, celebrated for its song | 1 answer |
| Word for Jenny Lind | 1 answer |
| Subject of Keats ode. | 1 answer |
| Statistician Florence | 1 answer |
| Nocturnal songbird | 1 answer |
| Nocturnal singer | 1 answer |
| European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song | 1 answer |
| English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War | 1 answer |
| Bird with beautiful song | 1 answer |
| ATTIC bird | 1 answer |
| *Nocturnal songster | 1 answer |
| STONECHAT relative | 2 answers |
| Keats' inspiration. | 2 answers |
| DUNNOCK relative | 2 answers |
| HEDGE sparrow relative | 2 answers |
| BLUETHROAT relative | 3 answers |
| GROUND-nesting bird | 3 answers |
| THRUSH (bird) relative | 4 answers |
| MIGRATING bird | 8 answers |
| MIGRATORY bird | 8 answers |
| Warbler. | 16 answers |
| Nocturnal bird | 17 answers |
| Thrush | 17 answers |
| Vocalist | 47 answers |
| AFRICAN bird | 48 answers |
| BRITISH bird | 58 answers |
| Nursemaid | 64 answers |
| European bird | 64 answers |
| Nurse | 79 answers |
| "Bird" | 138 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with NIGHTINGALE (5)
The Peacock and Juno THE PEACOCK made complaint to Juno that, while the nightingale pleased every ear with his song, he himself no sooner opened his mouth than he became a laughingstock to all who heard him.
The Peacock and Juno A Peacock once placed a petition before Juno desiring to have the voice of a nightingale in addition to his other attractions; but Juno refused his request.
The nightingale is rather rare and yet they say you’ll hear him there At Kew, at Kew in lilac time (and oh, so near to London!) The linnet and the throstle, too, and after dark the long halloo And golden-eyed _tu-whit, tu whoo_ of owls that ogle London.
There he saw the soul which had once been Orpheus choosing the life of a swan out of enmity to the race of women, hating to be born of a woman because they had been his murderers; he beheld also the soul of Thamyras choosing the life of a nightingale; birds, on the other hand, like the swan and other musicians, wanting to be men.
Florence in midsummer was perfectly void of travelers, and the dense little city gave forth its aesthetic aroma with a larger frankness, as the nightingale sings when the listeners have departed.
Quotes with NIGHTINGALE (3)
There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world still…
God’s simple Blessings are nothing short of miracles. That rain drop trapped in a leaf, that glistening dew drop which has just caught the first rays of a new born sun, that sweet song of the Nightingale, those beautiful wooly clouds with their unique designs (have you ever noticed that clouds never make the same design twice- and we humans struggle to draw something new or write something unique), the pit pit patter of the rain creating a music of its own. These are but some…
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1957–2021).