Word.ws English Dictionary

obeliscolychny

obeliscolychny noun: a lighthouse.

Noun

obeliscolychny (plural obeliscolychnies)

  1. (rare) A lighthouse.
    • “I see a great number of People on the Harbour; I see a Light on an Obeliscolychny.”1694, François Rabelais, translated by PA Motteux, Pantagruel, page 119
    • Who has lit the sun and the moon like two lamps, that they might shine in the distance on the two mountains on the two sides of the castle, comparable to two obeliscolychnies?1993, Alfred Jarry, translated by Iain White, Visits of Love, page 85

Forms of obeliscolychny

pluralobeliscolychnies

Origin of obeliscolychny

From Middle French obeliscolychnie (in Rabelais), from Ancient Greek ὀβελισκολύχνιον (obeliskolúkhnion, “spit used as a lamp-holder”), from ὀβελίσκος (obelískos, “obelisk”) + λυχνίον (lukhníon, “lamp-stand”).

Questions about obeliscolychny

What does obeliscolychny mean?
Obeliscolychny means a lighthouse.
What part of speech is obeliscolychny?
Obeliscolychny is a noun.
What is the plural of obeliscolychny?
The plural of obeliscolychny is obeliscolychnies.

Words near obeliscolychny in the dictionary

  1. obelisc
  2. obeliscal
  3. obeliscar
  4. obeliscoid
  5. obeliscolychnies
  6. obeliscolychny
  7. obeliscs
  8. obelise
  9. obelised
  10. obelises
  11. obelising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: obeliscolychny (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: “obeliscolychny.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/obeliscolychny. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.