nightlight

Definition

a small, dim light or lamp left on overnight

Etymology

From night + light.

Example Sentences

• "She had brought in with her the night-light that had been burning outside her door. She blew it out."
• "They made you give up / your nightlight / and your teddy / and your thumb."
• "1988, Joseph Brodsky, "Gorbunov and Gorchakov" Canto 13 in In Urania, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 165, Your light cannot drive off the dark from me— / not any more than night-lights by the bed / drive off my dreams."