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TORCHLIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does torchlight mean?
• TORCHLIGHT (noun)
The noun TORCHLIGHT has 1 sense:
1. light from a torch or torches
Familiarity information: TORCHLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Light from a torch or torches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("torchlight" is a kind of...):
light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)
Context examples
About half-way down the slope to the stockade, they were collected in a group; one held the light, another was on his knees in their midst, and I saw the blade of an open knife shine in his hand with varying colours in the moon and torchlight.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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