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Candlelight

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ5031966
Source-derived summary

Candlelight or Candlelighting or Candlelighter may refer to:

Light created by a candle

Candlelighting, the lighting of Shabbat candles

A candlelight vigil, an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to show support for a specific cause

Candlelighter (person), or candle-lighter (κανδηλάπτης, kandilaptis) Semantron, Acolyte

Candlelighter (device), or candle lighter

"The Candle Lighter", List of works by Frederik Pohl 1955

Candlelighters or Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation, American Childhood Cancer Organization, a charitable organization

Music

Candlelight Records, a British extreme metal record label owned by Universal Music Group

"Candlelight" (Csézy song)

"Candlelight" (Six by Seven song)

"Candlelight", a song by Janis Ian on the album Miracle Row

"Candlelight", a song by Labelle on the album Back to Now

"Candlelight" (The Maccabeats song), 2010

"Candlelight", a song by Relient K on the album Forget and Not Slow Down

"Candlelights" (song), Bix Beiderbecke tune

Soft, slow and almost fully acoustic edits or remixes of certain types of Dance songs. E.g. "DJ Sammy & Yanou ft.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Candlelight, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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“Candlelight” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Candlelight, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5031966. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from Candlelight” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.