About The Word Alight
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Alight
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What's The Definition Of Alight?
[v] come down, as of a bird
[v] to come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him." Synonyms | Synonyms for Alight: climb down | light | perch Related Terms | Find terms related to Alight: ablaze | afire | aflame | aflicker | aglow | ardent | bathed with light | bespangled | blazing | bright | brightened | burning | candent | candescent | candlelit | climb down | comburent | come down | come in | come to land | conflagrant | crash-land | debark | debus | deplane | descend | detrain | disembark | disemplane | dismount | ditch | dock | downwind | drop | drop anchor | effulgent | enlightened | fall | fiery | firelit | flagrant | flaming | flaring | flickering | fulgent | fuming | gaslit | get down | get off | glowing | go ashore | guttering | ignescent | ignited | illuminated | in a blaze | in a glow | in flames | incandescent | inflamed | irradiate | irradiated | kindled | lamplit | land | lanternlit | level off | light | lighted | lightened | lit | lit up | live | living | luminous | make a landfall | make land | make port | moonlit | moor | on fire | overshoot | pancake | perch | put in | put into port | reach land | reeking | refulgent | roost | scintillant | scintillating | set down | settle | settle down | sit down | smoking | smoldering | spangled | sparking | starlit | star-spangled | star-studded | studded | sunlit | talk down | tie up | tinseled | touch down | tumble | unboat | unextinguished | unhorse | unquenched | upwind See Also | come down | descend | fall | go down | land | set down Alight In Webster's Dictionary \A*light"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Alighted}sometimes
{Alit}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Alighting}.] [OE. alihten, fr. AS.
[=a]l[=i]htan; pref. [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig.
meaning out) + l[=i]htan, to alight, orig. to render light,
to remove a burden from, fr. l[=i]ht, leoht, light. See
{Light}, v. i.]
1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback
or from a carriage; to dismount.
2. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying
bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
3. To come or chance (upon). [R.]
\A*light"\, a. [Pref. a- + light.] Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. ``The lamps were alight.'' --Dickens. |
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