Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with light; lighted up; illuminated.
- To light; light up; illuminate.
- To set light to; light (a fire, lamp, etc.).
- To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate.
- To get down or descend, as from horseback or from a carriage; dismount.
- To settle or lodge after descending: as, a bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
- To fall (upon); come (upon) accidentally, or without design; light: as, to
alight on a particular passage in a book, or on a particular fact; to alight on a rare plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
- intransitive verb To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop
- intransitive verb rare To come or chance (
upon ). - adjective Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
light or less heavy;lighten ;alleviate . - adjective
Lit ,on fire ,switched on. - adjective figuratively
Lit ;on fire ,burning . - verb intransitive To spring down, get down, or
descend , as from onhorseback or from acarriage ; todismount . - verb intransitive, with on To
descend andsettle ,lodge ,rest , orstop . - verb intransitive To come or chance (upon).
- verb transitive To
light ;light up ;illuminate . - verb transitive To
set light to; light.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to come to rest, settle
- adjective lighted up by or as by fire or flame
- verb come down
Etymologies
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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No-one but the coach-driver saw her alight from the carriage, though, when it was a bare two miles from town.
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Laurence Olivier and Dora Bryan glancing up at it as they alight from the Brighton Belle.
Brighton Clock Peter Ashley 2007
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Laurence Olivier and Dora Bryan glancing up at it as they alight from the Brighton Belle.
Archive 2007-10-01 Peter Ashley 2007
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We stopped at a meadow to share our lemonade and my sister and I noticed how tenderly Manuel helped his wife to alight from the car.
Lucky thing 2006
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As for Willie Rennie, well he's not going to set the Commons alight is he?
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We stopped at a meadow to share our lemonade and my sister and I noticed how tenderly Manuel helped his wife to alight from the car.
Lucky thing 2006
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The death record of a man killed by the cars at Wells while "Attempting to board or alight from a moving train" is made more poignant by the notation that he was "by tools found in his pocket supposed a shoe laster."
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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Tracey turned to George, her expression alight with curiosity.
Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003
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The percussionists alight from the front seat to do their own unloading.
Music in the streets 2000
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The second time I visited Canada was last year, and then I had not time to alight from the train from Vancouver to New York, once more by Niagara.
The Supreme Appeal 1927
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