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birthnight

/burth-nahyt/US // ˈbɜrθˌnaɪt //

诞生之夜,出生夜,诞生夜,生育夜

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.