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flashlight

noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈflæʃˌlaɪ̯t]
  • [ˈflæʃˌlɐɪ̯t] US, Canada, Canadian raising
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈflaʃˌlɑjt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Scotland: /ˈflaʃˌlʌɪt/
  • Australian: /ˈflæʃˌlɑet/
  • New-Zealand: /ˈflɛʃˌlɑet/
  • rhymes with -æʃlaɪt
  • CMU ARPABET: F L AE1 SH L AY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A battery-powered hand-held light source.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, Philippines, US

Examples

  • I shone my flashlight on the strange inscription.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: electric torch, torch

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: pocket light

2

noun

Meaning 2

A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A photograph taken with a flash camera.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To illuminate with a flashlight.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: torch

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: electric lamp

Narrower terms: penlight

History

Etymology

From flash + light.

Across languages

Translations

123 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: flits — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Albanian: elektrik dore — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Albanian: elektrik — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Arabic: مَشْعَل (mašʕal) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Arabic: كَشَّاف (kaššāf) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Armenian: լապտեր (lapter) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Armenian: գրպանի էլեկտրական լապտեր (grpani ēlektrakan lapter) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Armenian: ձեռքի լապտեր (jeṙkʻi lapter) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Asturian: llinterna — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Azerbaijani: cib fənəri — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Azerbaijani: fənər — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Belarusian: ліхта́рык (lixtáryk) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Belarusian: ліхта́р (lixtár) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Bengali: টর্চলাইট (ṭorcolaiṭ) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Betawi: bateré — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Bulgarian: ръ́чно фене́рче (rǎ́čno fenérče) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Bulgarian: джо́бно фене́рче (džóbno fenérče) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Burmese: တုတ်မီး (tutmi:) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Catalan: llanterna — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Chinese Mandarin: 手電筒 /手电筒 (shǒudiàntǒng) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Chinese Mandarin: 電筒 /电筒 (diàntǒng) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Czech: baterka — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Danish: stavlygte — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Danish: lommelygte — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Dhivehi: ޓޯޗު (ṭōcu) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Dutch: zaklamp — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Dutch: zaklantaarn — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Esperanto: poŝlampo — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Estonian: taskulamp — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Farefare: laatɩ — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Faroese: lummalykt — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Faroese: stavlykt — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Finnish: taskulamppu — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • French: lampe de poche — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • French: lampe torche — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Galician: lanterna — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Galician: foco — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Georgian: ელექტრო ფარანი (elekṭro parani) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • German: Taschenlampe — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Greek: φακός (fakós) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Gujarati: હાથબત્તી (hāthbattī) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Hebrew: פָּנָס (panás) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Hindi: टार्च (ṭārc) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Hindi: टॉर्च (ṭŏrc) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Hungarian: elemlámpa — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Hungarian: zseblámpa — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Icelandic: vasaljós — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Indonesian: senter — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Irish: tóirse — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Irish: lóchrann — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Italian: torcia elettrica — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Italian: pila — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Japanese: 懐中電燈 (kaichū dentō) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Jarawa: ʈorči — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Kazakh: қалта шам (qalta şam) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Khmer: ពិល (pɨl) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Khmer: អគ្និមណី (ʼakniʼ mĕəʼnii) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Khmer: កែវឆ្លុះ (kaew chloh) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Korean: 등불 (deungbul) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Korean: 손전등 (sonjeondeung) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Korean: 토치 (tochi) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Ktunaxa: kaǂnuqaxni·muǂ — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Kyrgyz: фонарча (fonarca) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Kyrgyz: колчырак (kolcırak) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Lao: ໄຟສາຍ (fai sāi) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Latin: lanterna — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Latvian: lukturis — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Lithuanian: kišeninis žibintuvėlis — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Lithuanian: žibintuvėlis — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Macedonian: све́тилка (svétilka) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Macedonian: бате́риска све́тилка (batériska svétilka) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Malay: lampu picit — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Malay: lampu suluh — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Malay: pelita picit — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Mongolian: гар чийдэн (gar čiiden) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Mongolian: гар дэн (gar den) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠷ ᠴᠢᠳ᠌ᠧᠩ (ɣar čidēng) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠷ ᠋ᠳ᠋ᠧᠩ (ɣar dēng) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Navajo: bee nʼdildlaadí — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lommelykt — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lommelykt — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Iranian Persian: چِراغ قُوِّه (čerâġ ġovve) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Iranian Persian: چِراغقُوِّه (čerâġ-ġovve) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Polish: latarka — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Portuguese: lanterna — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Romanian: lanternă — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Russian: фона́рик (fonárik) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Russian: фона́рь (fonárʹ) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Russian: карма́нный фона́рь (karmánnyj fonárʹ) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Russian: ручно́й фона́рь (ručnój fonárʹ) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Scottish Gaelic: lòchran — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Serbo-Croatian: ба̀те̄рија — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Serbo-Croatian: bàtērija — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Slovak: baterka — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Slovene: svetilka — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Lower Sorbian: kapsna lampa — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Upper Sorbian: kapsna lampa — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Spanish: linterna — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Spanish: foco — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Spanish: lámpara — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Spanish: flashlight — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Swahili: tochi — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Swedish: ficklampa — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Tajik: фонусчаи кисагӣ (fonusča-yi kisagi) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Tajik: фонусча (fonusča) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Tajik: фонуси дастӣ (fonus-i dasti) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Tajik: фонус (fonus) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Tamil: டார்ச் (ṭārc) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Thai: ไฟฉาย (fai-chǎai) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Tibetan: གློག་ཞུ (glog zhu) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Tibetan: སྦི་ཅི་ལི (sbi ci li) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Turkish: fener — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Turkish: el feneri — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Ukrainian: ліхта́рик (lixtáryk) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Ukrainian: ліхта́р (lixtár) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Urdu: ٹارْچ (ṭārc) — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Uzbek: fonarcha — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Uzbek: choʻntak fonari — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Uzbek: fonus — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Vietnamese: đèn pin — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Volapük: pokalampad — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Welsh: fflachlamp — battery-powered hand-held light source
  • Yami: dingki — battery-powered hand-held light source