birthnight
/burth-nahyt/US // ˈbɜrθˌnaɪt //
诞生之夜,出生夜,诞生夜,生育夜
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the night of a person's birth, especially a birthday celebration for royalty.
- : the anniversary of such a date.
- : the celebration of a royal birthday.
Examples
It was night at Boston, the birthnight of one of the leading events in the history of the world.
How gladly would I have recompensed the forester who lit up a brake on my birthnight, which else had warmed him half the winter!
He had been unexpectedly startled on Ruth's birthnight by a vague something in Kemp's eyes.
This was my first entrance into fashionable life at one of Madame Bodisco's birthnight balls.
Her high-mettled prancing at the last birthnight ball nearly set the room in a roar.
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