Wax-candle
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A candle made of wax.
"To determine to what the ordinary variations in the quantity of light emitted by a common wax-candle might amount , I took such a candle , and , lighting it and placed it before the photometer, […]"
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"To determine to what the ordinary variations in the quantity of light emitted by a common wax-candle might amount , I took such a candle , and , lighting it and placed it before the photometer, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English wax-candul, waxe candel, wax candill, from Old English weaxcandel, equivalent to wax + candle.
More for "wax-candle"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.