Other forms: starlights
Starlight is the light the stars give at night. By starlight, walk in the starlight, faint starlight.
It is enough to see by once the eyes have adapted, which takes about half an hour and is undone by one glance at a phone. Some of it left its star before there were people to look at it.
1nounstarlightThe light the stars give at night.
“We walked home along the beach by starlight, with no moon in the sky.”
starlight is a light.
Star plus light, an Old English compound.
From star + light.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA