Word.ws English Dictionary

lights upon

lights upon is the third-person singular simple present indicative of light upon.

Meaning of light upon

Verb

light upon (third-person singular simple present lights upon, present participle lighting upon, simple past and past participle lit upon or lighted upon)

  1. To find or think of something unexpectedly; to come upon something by accident.
    • [...] Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly with...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 75

Questions about lights upon

What is lights upon the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lights upon is the third-person singular simple present indicative of light upon.

Words near lights upon in the dictionary

  1. lights up a room
  2. lights up like a Christmas tree
  3. lights up someone's ass
  4. lights up the room
  5. lights up the tote
  6. lights upon
  7. lights, camera, action
  8. lights-o'-love
  9. lights-out
  10. lightsaber
  11. lightsabers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lights upon (page history and authors); light upon (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lights upon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lights_upon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.