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Word entry · 5 letters

light

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"Brightness from a lamp"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /laɪt/Part of speech adjective, verb, adverb, nounSorted ghiltStarts with LEnds with T7 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Brightness; not heavy

Word origin

From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht, from Proto-West Germanic *leuht, from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- (“to shine”).

Used in a sentence

  • “As you can see, this spacious dining-room gets a lot of light in the mornings.”
  • “Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.”
  • “Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues

01“Brightness from a lamp”5 letters
02“Lamp glow”5 letters
03“Lamp output”5 letters
04“Not heavy, or illumination”5 letters
05“Opposite of dark”5 letters
06“Opposite of heavy”5 letters
07“Source of brightness”5 letters

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