Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

starbathe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: star-bathe
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To expose one's body to starlight in order to relax, or in the belief that it has positive effects. (Compare sunbathe.)

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"... even though we were not sure what we would find at the top of it (another troop of nude women starbathing this time? was it perhaps even the same set of steps which we had climbed a few days back and didn't recognize now in the dark?)"
"And I glanced at her and smiled, my face still flushed from starbathing beneath that rampaging, black-hot sky; […]"
"The stars are all out, sending their indecipherable messages. Starlight, starbright. Debbie comes out into the garden and asks us what on earth we are doing out here in the dark and Charles says, 'Starbathing.'"
"[…] to starbathe beneath the glittering Milky Way."

Etymology

From star + bathe, modelled on sunbathe.

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

starbathes (present, singular) starbathing (participle, present) starbathed (participle, past) starbathed (past)

Rhymes With

bathe lathe swathe rathe spathe scathe saithe staithe enswathe flathe snathe stathe

Questions

What does starbathe mean?: To expose one's body to starlight in order to relax, or in the belief that it has positive effects. (Compare sunbathe.)
Where does starbathe come from?: From star + bathe, modelled on sunbathe.

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