RAY OF LIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ray of light mean? 

• RAY OF LIGHT (noun)
  The noun RAY OF LIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a column of light (as from a beacon)

  Familiarity information: RAY OF LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAY OF LIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A column of light (as from a beacon)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

beam; beam of light; irradiation; light beam; ray; ray of light; shaft; shaft of light

Hypernyms ("ray of light" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ray of light"):

heat ray (a ray that produces a thermal effect)

high beam (the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination)

moon-ray; moon ray; moonbeam (a ray of moonlight)

sunbeam; sunray (a ray of sunlight)

laser beam (a beam of light generated by a laser)

low beam (the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance)

 Context examples 

A black screen was drawn across his mirror of inner vision, and fancy lay in a darkened sick-room where entered no ray of light.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The shutters cut off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My brain was all in a whirl, and only that there came through all the multitude of horrors, the holy ray of light that my dear, dear Lucy was at last at peace, I do not think I could have borne it without making a scene.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then the wedding was held with great pomp, but as the train came from the church, and passed with the torches before the hall, a very small ray of light fell upon the prince.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"You are a great and noble woman," he said. "And it is I who should be proud to know you. And I am, I am. You are a ray of light to me in a very dark world, and I've got to be straight with you, just as straight as you have been."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)