Noun: candle
| Singular | candle |
| Plural | candles |
Sample Sentences
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light a candle
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blow out the candles on the birthday cake
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snuff out the candle
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That vicar used to be an evangelical, but she's crept up the candle in recent years.
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That’s why self-consciously Anglo-catholic churches which are a mile high up the paschal candle can do reasonably well in the current climate. [2016 May 2, Kelvin Holdsworth, “The Seven Actual Marks of Mission”, in Thurible.net:]
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For those towards the top of the candle, receiving holy communion is not the same as a celebration of the mass, and mailing the sacred host demonstrates a serious lack of reverence for the sacrament. [2020 December 18, Robert Paterson, “Consecrated bread should not be posted to communicants”, in Church Times:]
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Clergy higher up the candle had different ideas. From the 1920s, Anglo-Papalism had favoured Roman fashions, and many of the Catholic clergy wore Latin cassocks — with plain or lacy cottas, and birettas — for the Offices; and, eschewing the surplice, an amice and alb — usually with Latin vestments — for the eucharist. [2022 May 27, Philip Goff, “Platinum Jubilee: The way we wore”, in Church Times:]
Nouns inflected like candle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English candel, from Old English candel (“candle”), borrowed from Latin candēla (“candle”), from Latin candeō (“be white, bright, shining”, verb); see candid. Doublet of candela and chandelle. See: Middle English Nouns '
candel', Old English Nouns '
candel', Latin Nouns '
candēla', Latin Nouns '
candeō'.
Verbs referencing "candle"
Portuguese Nouns
candeia.