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lighthouse

noun · 2 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.

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  • /ˈlaɪthaʊs/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • In the history of lighthouses, English civil engineer John Smeaton made a significant contribution to the design of them.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: obeliscolychny, phare

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: house, building, light, aid

2

noun

Meaning 2

a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beacon, beacon light, pharos

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tower

Narrower terms: Tower of Pharos

History

Etymology

From light + house.

Across languages

Translations

158 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: vuurtoring — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Afrikaans: ligtoring — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Albanian: far — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Albanian: fanar — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Amharic: የፋና ቤት (yäfana bet) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Arabic: مَنَارَة (manāra) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Arabic: مَنَار (manār) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Arabic: فَنَار (fanār) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Arabic: منارة (manāra) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Arabic: فنار (fanār) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Arabic: مَنارة (manāra) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Armenian: փարոս (pʻaros) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Asturian: faru — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Azerbaijani: mayak — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Azerbaijani: dəniz fənəri — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Basque: itsasargi — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Belarusian: мая́к (maják) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Bengali: বাতিঘর (batighor) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Breton: tour-tan — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Bulgarian: фар (far) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Burmese: မီးပြတိုက် (mi:pra.tuik) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Catalan: far — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Chechen: маяк (majak) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Chinese Cantonese: 燈塔 /灯塔 — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Chinese: дынтэ (dɨnte) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Chinese: 燈塔 /灯塔 (zh-min-nan) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Chinese Mandarin: 燈塔 /灯塔 (dēngtǎ) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Chinese Mandarin: 岸標 /岸标 (ànbiāo) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Cornish: golowji — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Czech: maják — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Danish: fyr — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Danish: fyrtårn — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Central Dusun: walai-tapuy — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Dutch: vuurtoren — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Esperanto: lumturo — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Estonian: tuletorn — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Estonian: majakas — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Faroese: viti — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Finnish: majakka — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • French: phare — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • West-Frisian: fjoertoer — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Gagauz: fener — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Galician: faro — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Georgian: შუქურა (šukura) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • German: Leuchtturm — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • German: Lüüchtturm — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Greek: φάρος (fáros) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Ancient Greek: φρυκτώριον (phruktṓrion) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Greenlandic: naaralaartitsivik — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Gujarati: દીવાદાંડી (dīvādā̃ḍī) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Hawaiian: hale ipukukui — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Hebrew: מִגדַלוֹר (migdalór) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Hindi: रोशनीघर (rośnīghar) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Hindi: दीपगृह (dīpgŕh) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Hindi: प्रकाशस्तंभ (prakāśastambh) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Hungarian: világítótorony — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Icelandic: viti — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Icelandic: vitaturn — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Ido: faro — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Indonesian: mercusuar — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Indonesian: menara api — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Interlingua: pharo — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Irish: teach solais — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Italian: faro — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Japanese: 灯台 (tōdai) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Kannada: ಕಡಲಬೆಳಕು (kaḍalabeḷaku) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Kashubian: bliza — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Kashubian: latarniô — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Kazakh: шамшырақ (şamşyraq) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Kazakh: маяк (maäk) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Khmer: សើន (saən) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Khmer: ប្រទីប (prɑɑtiip) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Khmer: ហ្វារ (faa) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Korean: 등대 (deungdae) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Northern Kurdish: fanûsgeh — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Kyrgyz: маяк (mayak) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Lao: ປະພາຄານ (pa phā khān) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Latin: pharus — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Latvian: bāka — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Lithuanian: švyturys — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Luxembourgish: Liichttuerm — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Luxembourgish: Phar — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Macedonian: све́тилник (svétilnik) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Macedonian: фар (far) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Malay: rumah api — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Malayalam: വിളക്കുമാടം (viḷakkumāṭaṁ) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Maltese: fanal — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Manx: thie soilshee — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Manx: thie sollysh — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Māori: whare rama — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Māori: whare tūrama — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Marathi: दीपस्तंभ (dīpastambha) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Mongolian: гэрэлт цамхаг (gerelt camxag) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Nepali: प्रकाशस्तम्भ (prakāśastambha) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Norman: veue — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fyr — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fyrtårn — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Occitan: far — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Old English: fȳrtorr — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Pannonian Rusyn: швицарнїк (švicarnjik) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Iranian Persian: فانوسِ دَرْیایی (fânus-e daryâyi) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Plautdietsch: Lichttorm — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Polish: latarnia morska — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Portuguese: farol — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Romanian: far — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Russian: мая́к (maják) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Saanich: ĆI ̧EḰENÁU ̧TW̱ — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Northern Sami: čuovgatoardna — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Sanskrit: दीपस्तंभ (dīpastaṃbha) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Scottish Gaelic: taigh-solais — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Serbo-Croatian: светио̀нӣк — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Serbo-Croatian: свјетио̀нӣк — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Serbo-Croatian: светиља — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Serbo-Croatian: svetiònīk — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Serbo-Croatian: svjetiònīk — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Serbo-Croatian: svetilja — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Sinhalese: ප්රදීපාගාරය (pradīpāgāraya) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Slovak: maják — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Slovene: svetilnik — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Lower Sorbian: swěśak — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Lower Sorbian: swětlak — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Upper Sorbian: swětłownja — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Spanish: faro — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Spanish: fanal — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Swahili: mnara wa taa — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Swedish: fyr — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Swedish: fyrtorn — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tagalog: parola — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tajik: мино (mino) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tajik: минои баҳрӣ (mino-yi bahri) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tajik: маяк (mayak) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tajik: фонуси дарёӣ (fonus-i daryoyi) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tamil: கலங்கரைவிளக்கம் (kalaṅkaraiviḷakkam) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tatar: маяк (mayaq) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Telugu: దీపస్తంభం (dīpastambhaṁ) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tetum: farol — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Thai: ประภาคาร (bprà-paa-kaan) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Thai: กระโจมไฟ (grà-joom-fai) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Thai: เรือนตะเกียง (rʉʉan-dtà-giiang) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Thai: เรือนไฟ (rʉʉan-fai) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tibetan: སྒྲོན་མདུང (sgron mdung) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Tigrinya: መናራ (mänara) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Turkish: fener — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Turkish: fener kulesi — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Turkish: deniz feneri — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Ottoman Turkish: فنار (fenar, fener) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Turkmen: maýak — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Ukrainian: мая́к (maják) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Urdu: مَنارَہ (manāra) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Urdu: روشَنی گَھر (rośanī ghar) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Urdu: روشَنی کا مینار (rośanī kā menār) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Uyghur: ماياك (mayak) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Uzbek: mayak — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Veps: majak — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Vietnamese: hải đăng — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Volapük: far — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Welsh: goleudy — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
  • Yiddish: לײַכטטורעם (laykhtturem) — building containing a light to warn or guide ships
Real reading context

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