lights
/laɪts/
lights is the plural of light.
lights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of light.
Meaning of light
Noun
light (countable and uncountable, plural lights)
- Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
- As you can see, this spacious dining-room gets a lot of light in the mornings.
- Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye or in nearby ranges (infrared or ultraviolet radiation).
- black light
- Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength.
- It’s everywhere. At this moment, as you sit quietly reading this book, you are awash in it. At work, it’s emanating from your electronic devices; step outside for lunch, and the sun bathes you in it. You may receive an extra dose of it when you visit your doctor, pass through security at the...2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 8-9
- A source of illumination.
- Put that light out!
- A lightbulb or similar light-emitting device, regardless of whether it is lit.
- We turned off all the lights and went to sleep.
- A traffic light, or (by extension) an intersection controlled by traffic lights.
- To get to our house, turn right at the third light.
Noun
lights pl (plural only)
- The lungs, now chiefly of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
- a stew of hogs' lights and potatoes
- But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast, / As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Words formed from lights
Phrases with lights
- lights on
- lights up
- arc lights
- dry lights
- fog lights
- gas lights
- key lights
- lights off
- New Lights
- Old Lights
- red lights
- sea lights
149 more phrasesFewer phrases
- tea lights
- top lights
- blue lights
- boob lights
- Bude lights
- city lights
- cold lights
- dark lights
- dome lights
- drop lights
- grow lights
- lights down
- lights into
- lights upon
- mood lights
- neon lights
- park lights
- rear lights
- ring lights
- roof lights
- slow lights
- stop lights
- swag lights
- tail lights
- very lights
- yard lights
- amber lights
- black lights
- brake lights
- dummy lights
- fairy lights
- false lights
- green lights
- house lights
- idiot lights
- klieg lights
- lights along
- Marfa lights
- marsh lights
- night lights
- pilot lights
- polar lights
- quick lights
- range lights
- stack lights
- stage lights
- super lights
- track lights
- white lights
- anchor lights
- Bengal lights
- bright lights
- cherry lights
- colour lights
- Coston lights
- Finsen lights
- hazard lights
- leaded lights
- marker lights
- pocket lights
- quarry lights
- riding lights
- street lights
- strobe lights
- Wood's lights
- Yehudi lights
- yellow lights
- zircon lights
- ancient lights
- calcium lights
- guiding lights
- leading lights
- lights o' love
- Min Min lights
- parking lights
- pendant lights
- quarter lights
- reading lights
- running lights
- traffic lights
- trouble lights
- warning lights
- batement lights
- borrowed lights
- courtesy lights
- Drummond lights
- electric lights
- floating lights
- isophase lights
- jump the lights
- northern lights
- southern lights
- stop the lights
- zodiacal lights
- Christmas lights
- emergency lights
- Hessdalen lights
- indicator lights
- lights up a room
- occulting lights
- accidental lights
- livers and lights
- navigation lights
- oxycalcium lights
- St. Elmo's lights
- Festival of Lights
- keep the lights on
- kept the lights on
- lights up the room
- lights up the tote
- oxyhydrogen lights
- stop and go lights
- stop-and-go lights
- ultraviolet lights
- cold-cathode lights
- Friday night lights
- keeps the lights on
- lights a fire under
- lights of one's eye
- shot the lights out
- rough service lights
- shoot the lights out
- keeping the lights on
- lights the touchpaper
- shoots the lights out
- green lights to Malibu
- lights the touch-paper
- yellow lights of death
- lights someone's ass up
- lights up someone's ass
- shooting the lights out
- put someone's lights out
- County of Northern Lights
- lights one's hair on fire
- puts someone's lights out
- knock someone's lights out
- lights the blue touchpaper
- bright lights and cold steel
- cold steel and bright lights
- punched someone's lights out
- punches someone's lights out
- putting someone's lights out
- punching someone's lights out
- lights at the end of the tunnel
- lights up like a Christmas tree
- the lights are on but no one's home
- the lights are on but nobody's home
- kicks the tires and lights the fires
- the lights are on, but nobody's home
Words that rhyme with lights
Questions about lights
- What does lights mean?
- Lights means the lungs, now chiefly of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
- What is lights the plural of?
- Lights is the plural of light.
- What part of speech is lights?
- Lights is a noun.
- How do you pronounce lights?
- Lights is pronounced /laɪts/.
Words near lights in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lights (page history and authors); light (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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