| NOUN | artifact | pharos, beacon, lighthouse, beacon light | a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals / shoals to passing ships |
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| Sounds | feh'row.z | |
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| Rhymes | Ambrose ... Windows: 49 rhymes with owz... | |
| Meaning | A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals / shoals to passing ships. | |
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| Synonyms | beacon, lighthouse, beacon light | |
| 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 | |
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