Phrase guide
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
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A path that a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: lightray
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An inspiring or enlightening person or thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a column of light (as from a beacon)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: light, visible light, visible radiation
Narrower terms: heat ray, high beam, moonbeam, moon ray, moon-ray, sunbeam, sunray, laser beam, low beam
History
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
