Definition of Candlelight

1. Noun. The light provided by a burning candle.

Exact synonyms: Candle Flame
Generic synonyms: Light, Visible Light, Visible Radiation

Definition of Candlelight

1. n. The light of a candle.

Definition of Candlelight

1. Noun. The light emitted by a candle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Candlelight

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Candlelight

candle in the wind
candle power
candle snuffer
candle snuffers
candle wax
candleberries
candleberry
candlebomb
candlebombs
candled
candlefish
candlefishes
candleholder
candleholders
candleless
candlelight (current term)
candlelight vigil
candlelighted
candlelighter
candlelighters
candlelights
candlelike
candlelit
candlemaker
candlemakers
candlemaking
candlenut
candlenuts
candlepin
candlepin bowling

Literary usage of Candlelight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. "Dame Curtsey's" Book of Novel Entertainments for Every Day in the Year by Ellye Howell Glover (1907)
"A candlelight Wedding A candlelight wedding was a most beautiful affair, ... Everything and everybody appears to good advantage by candlelight. ..."

2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1873)
"... and candlelight. Being an Addition, or Lengthening of the Bell-mans Second Night-walke, &c., which was repeated with the same title in 1620. ..."

3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"CHAPTER II PEEP AT VOLTAIRE AND HIS DIVINE EMILIE (BY candlelight) IN THE TIDE OF EVENTS PUBLIC European affairs require little remembrance; the War burning ..."

4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... and will not be seen but by torch or candlelight, and come abroad with all the preparation may be, when they have no business, but only to show ..."

5. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"sometimes, and will not be seen but by torch or candlelight, and come abroad with all the preparation may be, when they have no business, but only to show ..."

6. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Ne lighted was with window, nor with later, But with continual! candlelight. Spin,. Г. Ç., VI, x, 42. For all the issue, both of vent and light, ..."

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