Alight

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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. To come or chance (upon).
  • adjective. Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate.
  • adjective. Lit, on fire, switched on.
  • adjective. Lit; on fire, burning.
  • verb. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
  • verb. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop.
  • verb. To come or chance (upon).
  • verb. To light; light up; illuminate.
  • verb. To set light to; light.
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  • verb. to come to rest, settle
  • adjective. lighted up by or as by fire or flame
  • verb. come down
  • Word Usage
    "No-one but the coach-driver saw her alight from the carriage, though, when it was a bare two miles from town."
    cross-reference
    dismount  
    Equivalent
    lighted  lit  
    Form
    alighted  alighting  alit  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    comedown  descend  fall  godown  land  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bright  Dwight  Knight  Night  White  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ablaze  aflame  alive  animate  astir  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ablaze  afire  aflame  aflicker  aglow  
    verb-form