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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
Synonyms:
beacon; beacon light; lighthouse; pharos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("lighthouse" is a kind of...):
tower (a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building)
Instance hyponyms:
Tower of Pharos (a great lighthouse (500 feet high) built at Alexandria in 285 BC)
Context examples:
The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of which is a lighthouse.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of us.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
White-crested waves beat madly on the level sands and rushed up the shelving cliffs; others broke over the piers, and with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses which rise from the end of either pier of Whitby Harbour.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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