CANDLELIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does candlelight mean? 

• CANDLELIGHT (noun)
  The noun CANDLELIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the light provided by a burning candle

  Familiarity information: CANDLELIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANDLELIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The light provided by a burning candle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

candle flame; candlelight

Hypernyms ("candlelight" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

 Context examples 

If you are attached, because the transiting moon will be in Scorpio, you will want to choose a dark, private restaurant with lots of romantic candlelight.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But I was mistaken; it was only candlelight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“What does all that signify? You will see nothing of it by candlelight. It will be as clean as Randalls by candlelight. We never see any thing of it on our club-nights.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It appears a neat job, however, as far as I could judge by candlelight, and does my friend Christopher Jackson credit.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am glad, said Lady Middleton to Lucy, you are not going to finish poor little Annamaria's basket this evening; for I am sure it must hurt your eyes to work filigree by candlelight.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If attached, choose to meet in a restaurant known for delicious food with an atmosphere of flowers, candlelight, perhaps a fireplace with a warm, crackling fire, and crisp white tablecloths. Heaven!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We now slowly ascended a drive, and came upon the long front of a house: candlelight gleamed from one curtained bow-window; all the rest were dark.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)