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Source of light
Answer for the clue "Source of light ", 6 letters:
beacon
Alternative clues for the word beacon
- ___ Hill (Boston locale)
- Fire meat to seal in vitamin
- Light eater primarily tucking into cured meat
- Guiding signal
- A radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes
- Statue of Liberty attraction
- Source of hope?
- A fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance
Word definitions for beacon in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beacon \Bea"con\ (b[=e]"k'n), n. [OE. bekene, AS. be['a]cen, b[=e]cen; akin to OS. b[=o]kan, Fries. baken, beken, sign, signal, D. baak, OHG. bouhhan, G. bake; of unknown origin. Cf. Beckon .] A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, ...
Usage examples of beacon.
Pacino had been lectured for ten minutes by Alameda to not even think about touching the international emergency beacon.
Lofty as the army was, that pale and sinister beacon rose above it, towering monstrous over all peaks and concernments of earth, and tasting the atomless aether where the cryptical moon and the mad planets reel.
It was put outside the ship, netted, separately beaconed, with a copy of the relevant contract, because the cargo holds were converted to hold the passengers.
Taking the names in alphabetical order, the first of the Norfolk men whose writings are represented is Thomas Becon or Beacon, who took orders in 1538, and preached in Norfolk and Suffolk.
They blinked and danced like beacons for the myriad denizens of the dark -- they flew around in a brave enchanting display -- but they were effectless, made nothing else visible.
A fan of engilded light made a beacon of the west for a time, gradually retreating.
Toorkild and Gobby smiled at each other and kept an indulgent silence as the brothers, between them, related how the Sterkarms had been ready for the Grannams, how the beacons had been fired and the bells rung.
Chu watched as the Harbin helicopters of squadrons one and two lifted off and flew to the west, soon vanishing into the dark and the rain until only their flashing beacons could be seen, then those too were swallowed up by the darkness.
And even more weirdly, the statue of Great Hest and the body of Vvelz glowed like beacons.
She was husling across the street, waving at us, her white tennis shoes a beacon in the darkness, a distant streetlight reflecting off the big patent leather purse looped into the crook of her arm.
For a device rated at perhaps a thousand hours, the Kookaburra Beacon had long outlived the company that had produced it.
I thought at first that the beacon had been lighted, and was casting its electric radiance into the liquid mass.
He took three breaths in rapid succession, at the same time checking his depth gauge and breaking out a Cyalume chemical lightstick to leave floating in the bubble as a beacon for the others to follow.
The running-board lights glowed to lifelike a beacon in the dark as he strode ahead of Lori to open the passenger door.
Such a man or woman could reach into the wolf pack and read the lupine senses like a map, could pinpoint a raider band like a beacon.