HyperDic: lighthouse

English > 1 sense of the word *lighthouse*:
NOUN	artifact	lighthouse, beacon, beacon light, pharos	a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals / shoals to passing ships

lighthouse > pronunciation
Sounds	lay'thhaw.s
Rhymes	alehouse ... whorehouse: 54 rhymes with aws...

English > *lighthouse*: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
Meaning	A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals / shoals to passing ships.
Synonyms	beacon, beacon light, pharos
Instances	Tower of Pharos	A great lighthouse (500 feet high) built at Alexandria in 285 BC
Broader	tower	A structure taller than its diameter
Spanish	almenara, baliza, faro, pharos
Catalan	far, pharos