Alight

Definitions: Alight

Alight

Adjective

1. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire".

Verb

1. To come to rest, settle: "Misfortune lighted upon him.".

2. Come down, as of a bird.

Date "alight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Alight

Synonyms: ablaze(p) (adj), afire(p) (adj), aflame(p) (adj), aflare(p) (adj), alight(p) (adj), blazing (adj), burning (adj), flaming (adj), on fire(p) (adj), climb down (v), light (v), perch (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arrival	Light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down; (be located); get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in; (ingress); make one's appearance; (appear); drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.
Descent	Dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall.
Heat	Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.
Navigation	Fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.
Quiescence	Dwell; (be present); settle; (be located); alight; (arrive) stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a stand; n. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Alight

English words defined with "alight": ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, Alighted, Alighting, Alit ♦ blazing, burning ♦ Carriage porch ♦ flaming, fusee, fuzee ♦ Lighte ♦ on fire. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alight": alight on water/to ♦ fatwood ♦ stumpwood ♦ Yezd. (references)

Etymologies containing "alight": Detrain. (references)

Domain

Usage

Lyrics

But I can see the fire's still alight (Land Of Confusion; performing artist: Genesis)

And like alight love disappears (All This Time; performing artist: Tiffany)

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Domain	Title
Books	Alight in the Void (reference) Set the Stars Alight [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Alight (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Fireball; meteor; fiery; ablaze; afire; aflame; alight; blazing; burning; conflagrant; flaming; flaring; ignited; lighted; afire; fire.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The pace of the battle accelerated rapidly when the insecticide DDT and the drug chloroquine were introduced during World War II. DDT was remarkably effective and could be sprayed on the walls of houses where adult Anopheles mosquitoes alight and rest after feeding. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Alight" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 49.22% of the time. "Alight" is used about 384 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	49.22%	189	22,353
Adjective (general or positive)	42.97%	165	24,305
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	7.81%	30	63,341
Total	100.00%	384	N/A

Expressions using "alight": a face alight with happiness ♦ alight from ♦ alight on ♦ alight on one's feet ♦ alight on water/to ♦ be alight ♦ eyes alight with love ♦ get alight ♦ set alight. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "alight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbres (bring down, climb down, debus, deduct, descend, dip, discount, dismount, dive, drop off, go down, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, recoup, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), ulem (bend, bend over, burn down, decrease, deepen, descend, dip, drop, duck, fall, go down, recede, sink, sit, sit down, take a seat), në flakë (ablaze, aflame, flaming), i ndezur (ablaze, aglow, bright, flamboyant, flame, glaring, glazy, hectic, high-colored, high-coloured, live, lively, noisy, on fire, vivid). (various references)

Arabic		‏مضطرم (flaming), ‏مشتعل (ablaze, afire, aflame, be alight, blazing, burner, burning, conflagrant, flaring, in flames, on fire), ‏نازل (depressed, engage), ‏وقع على (redound, sign on), ‏ترجل (dismount, drop, get off, light), ‏علم بالصدفة. (various references)

Bulgarian		светнал (lambent, lit, radiant), кацвам (land, light, perch, set down, sit), кацам (ground, put down, settle), горящ (ablaze, afire, burning, live, on fire), запален (afire, burning, enthusiastic, mad), попадам (fall, happen upon, hit). (various references)

Chinese		落 (drop, leave behind, to drop, to fall), 　发亮. (various references)

Czech		vystoupit (disembark, get down, get off, get out, get out of, get out(of), remount, secede, stand up, step off), snést se (drift to the ground, pounce, settle down, swoop), seskoèit (dismount, hop off, jump down), sesednout (come down, dismount, get down), posadit se (sit down, take a seat, take seat), přistát (bring down, land), osvìtlený. (various references)

Danish		stige ud af vognen til den forkerte side (to alight from a coach on the wrong side, to alight on the wrong side), stige ud af en vogn:stige ud af et tog (to alight from a coach:to alight from a train), forlade vognen til den forkerte side:stige paa vognen fra den forkerte side (to alight from a coach on the wrong side, to alight on the wrong side). (various references)

Dutch		aan de verkeerde zijde uitstappen (to alight from a coach on the wrong side, to alight on the wrong side), aan de tegenspoorzijde uitstappen (to alight from a coach on the wrong side, to alight on the wrong side), uitstappen (exit, get out, get out of a car, go out, to alight from a coach:to alight from a train). (various references)

Farsi		فرودامدن (Descend, Ground, Perch, Shore), پیاده شدن (Disembark, Land), تخفیف دادن (Abate, Assuage, Bate, Discount, Extenuate, Lower, Mitigate, Relieve), سوزان (Ablaze, Acrimonious, Ardent, Fervid, Perfervid, Scathing, Torrid), سبک کردن (Alleviate, Attenuate, Ease, Lighten, Mitigate), اتش زدن (Burn, Fire, Ignite), روشن کردن (Brighten, Clarify, Daylight, Elucidate, Enlighten, Explain, Ignite, Illuminate, Lighten, Refresh, Relume), روشن (Alive, Bright, Definite, Diaphanous, Ditinct, Eidetic, Elucidate, Explicit, Express, Intelligible, Legible, Limpid, Lucid, Perspicuous, Serene, Set, Shrill, Sunny, Unequivocal, Vivid), راحت کردن (Ease, Lighten, Relax), شعله ور (Afire, Aflame, Garish, Inflammable), برق زدن (Flash, Glisten, Glitter, Lightning, Luster, Ray, Scintillate, Wink). (various references)

Finnish		astua alas (descend, step down), laskeutua (come dawn, descend, get down, go down, land, settle, sink, touch down). (various references)

French		apprendre par hasard, allumé, tomber sur, s'arrêter, mettre pied � terre, en feu, descendre, descendant. (various references)

German		aussteigen (bail out, bale out, cop out, cry off, disembark, drop out, exit, get off, get out, get out of a car, give up, jump off, jump out, opt out, pull out, retire, to disembark, to exit, to get off, to get out, to step off), sich setzen (land, land up, perch, settle, sit, sit down, to be seated, to seat), sich niederlassen (ensconce, establish oneself, establishing, lie down, light, perch, roost, set up in business, set up shop, settle, settle down, sit down), brennend (afire, ardent, blazing, blistering, burning, consuming, fervid, flaming, lighted, parchingly, raging, scorching). (various references)

Greek		προσγειώνομαι (deplane, land, put down, touch down), προσθαλασσόνομαι, λάμπων (ablaze, aglow, effulgent, incandescent, lucent, refulgent, shiny, spangly, sparkling, splendent), ανημμένοσ, αναμμένοσ (lighted), αφιππεύω (dismount, to dismount). (various references)

Hebrew		מואר (light, lit), ל� חות (come down, descend, land, sink, touch down), �"ולק (ablaze, on fire). (various references)

Hungarian		égő (afire, bulb, burner, consumable, flagrant). (various references)

Indonesian		berseri-seri (beaming), bercahaya (efflugent, luminous, radiant, shine). (various references)

Italian		atterrare (cast, fell, knock down, land, Lodge, poleax, poleaxe, takeoff, throw, touch down), acceso (aglow, bright, lit up, on), smontare (demolish, demount, disassemble, discourage, dismantle, dismount, get off, go off duty, pull apart, stop work, strip, take in pieces, to remove a volume from a tape unit or a direct-access device, unload), scendere (come down, decrease, descend, dip, dismount, drop, fall, get, get down, get off, get out, go, go down, hang down, lower oneself, sink, slope, step down, to go down), posarsi (perch, settle, sit), posare (attitudinize, bottom, grandstand, land, lay, laying, place, pose, put, put aside, put by, put down, put on airs, recline, rest, set, set down, sit, switch off, turn off), infiammato (fiery, inflamed, inflammatory), distogliere (argue, avert, deter, dissuade, distract, divert). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		降りる (to alight, to descend, to get off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おりる (to alight, to descend, to get off), まいおりる (to alight, to fly down, to swoop down upon). (various references)

Manx		tarlheimey (climb down, dismount, get down), soilsheenagh (alight bright), lostey (ablaze, aflame, alight set, burn, burn away, burn up, combustion, cremate, cremation, deflagration, fire, fire away, fire-raising, incinerate), cheet neose (challenge, come down, descend, descending, descent). (various references)

Pig Latin		alightay

Portuguese		ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feelingly, fervent, fervor, fierceness, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, Hotspur, incantation, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm), apear (dismount), aceso (excitement, furious, live), pousar (land acquisition, Lodge), em chamas (afire, aflame, blazing), desmontar (demount, detach, disarticulate, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, take apart, to dismount, to remove a volume from a tape unit or a direct-access device, unhang, unhorse, unload, unship). (various references)

Romanian		aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), luminat (enlightened, illumination, lighted, lightsome, lit, luminous), lãsa (abandon, allow, break, cast off, cease, create, diminish, discontinue, drop, fail, forsake, free, leave, leave behind, let, put away, quit, relinquish, renounce, secure, settle, sink, sprout, stop, suffer, weaken), cocoţa (perch), coborî (abate, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, reduce, suppress). (various references)

Russian		сходить с поезда, сходить (come off, come off smth., descend, descended, get down, sloughed, sloughs, step down), светящийся (candescent, lucent, luminescent, luminous, phosphorescent, radiant), спускаться (come down, descend, get down, get off, go down), горящий (on fire), приземляться (ground, land, land-on, touch down). (various references)

Scottish		laiste (lighted up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		aterirati (land), zapaljen (aflame, inflamed), u vatri (aflame), spustiti se (climb down, descend, land, light, perch, shut in, step down), sjašiti (dismount), sići (climb down, come down, descend, get down, get off, get out, go down, light, step down), osvetljen. (various references)

Spanish		aterrizar (come down, land, set down, touch down), ardiendo (ablaze, afire, alive), apearse (dismount, drop off, get off), posarse (land, perch, settle, sit), poner (add, adjust, affix, append, arrange, attach, bet, call, clap, connect, contribute, deposit, do, dress, drop, encase, enclose, entangle, expend, fasten, get down, get on, give, give in, impawn, impose, inclose, insert, instal, install, invest, job, jug, kick out, land, lay, lay down, light, make, open, perform, place, play back, pose, post, provoke, put, put down, put into, put on, put out, put through, put up, raise, read, send, set, set up, slip on, stake, stand, start, stick, stick down, Stow, suppose, switch on, tag on, take, take along, throw in, translate, turn on, wear), en llamas (ablaze, afire, aflame, burning), desmontar (demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, level, strip, take apart, take in, take to pieces, tell off, throw, to dismount, to remove a volume from a tape unit or a direct-access device, unload, unrig), brillante (agleam, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, flashing, gay, glaring, glazy, glistening, glossy, glowing, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillant, scintillating, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, starry, twinkling), bajar de (get off, hop off). (various references)

Swedish		stiga av (dismount, get off, light). (various references)

Turkish		aydınlanmış, yere inmek (land, sit down, touch down), yanan (ablaze, afire, aflame, blazing, burning, flaming), tutuşmuş (afire, aflame, on fire), tesadüfen bulmak (alight on, blunder upon, chance upon, happen on, happen upon, stumble across, stumble on, stumble upon), rastlamak (alight on, blunder on, coincide, come across, come on, come upon, concur, encounter, fall in with, fall on, fall with, find, hap, happen, light, light upon, meet, meet by chance, run across, run against, run up against smb., stumble across, stumble on, stumble upon), konmak (enter on, enter upon, light, perch, perch oneself, settle, sit, touch down), inmek (climb down, come down, decrease, descend, dismount, ease off, fall, fall away, get off, go down, light, sink, step down, step off, step out, subside into, take off), ışıl ışıl (ablaze, agleam, ardent, brightly, brilliant, brilliantly, flaring, fresh, fulgurant, glaring, glaringly, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry), ışıkları yanmış. (various references)

Ukranian		сяючий (auroral, beaming, beamy, coruscating, fulgent, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, splendid), сідати (seat oneself, set, sit down, sit oneself, take a seat), сходити (arise, ascend, descend, dismount, get off, get up, rise, slough off, swarm up, uprise, walk down), у вогні (ablaze, afire, aflame, alow), спускатися (come down, descend, get down, go down, hang down, walk down), виходити (appear, come of, come out, egress, exit, get out, go out, log out, proceed, step, step out, walk out), освітлений, наштовхнутися (barge into, cannon, come across, knock against, run against), зупинятися (bait, draw up, pause, put in, run down, stanch, stand still, stay, stop), засвічений. (various references)

Vietnamese		sáng lên, rạng lên, ngời lên, cháy (ardent), bùng cháy, bốc cháy bừng lên. (various references)

Welsh		disgyn (descend, drop, fall, let down). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adsedero, adsedit, adsidebat, adsidentium. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	lihtan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alight": alighted, alighting, alightment, alightments, alights. (additional references)
	Words ending with "alight": ultralight. (additional references)
	Words containing "alight": ultralights, ultralightweight. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Alight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: albight, alift, alig, aligh, alih, alite, alitex, Allaghi, almight, alrighty, Alushta, awight, Awlright, laigh, laught, leight, Malpighi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "alight" (pronounced ulī"t)
4	u l ī" t	delight, polite.
3	-l ī" t	blight, flight, light, lite, plight, sleight, slight.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-l-t"
	-1 letter: laigh, laith, lathi, light.
	-2 letters: alit, gait, ghat, gilt, glia, hail, halt, hila, hilt, lath, lati, tail, tali.
	-3 letters: ail, ait, alt, gal, gat, ghi, git, hag, hat, hit, lag, lat, lit, tag, til.
	-4 letters: ag, ah, ai, al, at, ha, hi, it, la, li, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-l-t"
	+1 letter: alights, alright, halting, lathing.
	+2 letters: alighted, almighty, atheling, daylight, fanlight, gaslight, gilthead, hightail, latching, lathings, litharge, loathing, megalith, taiglach, teiglach, thirlage.
	+3 letters: algorithm, alighting, athelings, backlight, chelating, daylights, deadlight, earthling, eightball, fanlights, gaslights, ghastlier, giltheads, haltering, haltingly, hatchling, haughtily, headlight, hightails, jacklight, lamplight, lathering, lethargic, lightface, lightfast, litharges, loathings, logarithm, megaliths, naughtily, nightfall, plaything, safelight, starlight, taillight, thirlages, thralling, trachling, ultrahigh.
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