nightingale song

Moonlit avian melody

The song of the nightingale, a small European thrush renowned for its rich, complex vocalizations.

Nightingales sing at night as well as by day, and their music has become a symbol of beauty, longing, and poetic inspiration across centuries of literature: The nightingale song filled the garden after dark.

The phrase evokes something hauntingly melodic.

Related

nocturnal · moonlight · lark · thrush · warbler · forest · forest floor · dusk · haunting · fluting · Keats · ode · romantic · woodland · perch · feathers · dawn · chorus

Opposites
temporal association

nightingale songdawn chorus

Birds' collective sunrise singing

rooster crow · cock-a-doodle-doo · reveille · cockcrow

aesthetic quality

nightingale songcackling

Harsh, staccato laughter

squawking · caterwauling

natural vs. artificial sound

nightingale songcacophony

Harsh, clashing sounds

industrial noise · discord · monotone · jackhammer · car alarm

Family

nightingale, song, nightingales, songs, sing, sang, sung, singer, singers

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G