Synonyms:
beacon, lighthouse, beacon_light, pharos
Meaning: a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
Usage examples
Scores of people visited the lighthouse.
He decided to risk launching a boat from the lighthouse.
Grace did not find the life at the lighthouse unpleasant.
But by this time a lighthouse had been erected, and Watts the keeper of it had a boat, and was, moreover, fond of liquor.
Her confined life at the lighthouse and the exposure she underwent there resulted in the disease of consumption from which she rapidly wasted away.
Last night I had some talk with him about going to-day, cutting his visit short; so sure am I that he'll be better as soon as he's shut up in his lighthouse.
Grace Horsley Darling was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper named William Darling, who tended a light on one of the Farne Islands as his father had done before him.
But the confinement of the life in the lighthouse was not good for the growing girl, and Grace never was strong and robust as would be expected from the daughter of fishermen.
Their boat was tossed like a shuttlecock in the great waves, and they knew that unless the shipwrecked persons could aid them it would be impossible to return to the lighthouse.
Fog and rain made it impossible for the sailors to see until they were in the teeth of the breakers, and then the beam of the lighthouse showed them the wild rocks only a short distance away.