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Plural of light

regular plural

The plural of light is lights.

Forms of light

Singularlight /laɪt/
Plurallights /laɪts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lights in a sentence

  • We turned off all the lights and went to sleep.
  • "Well, there's her statement of her case, and according to her lights, it's a just one.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 164
  • The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.From the entry pollute
  • With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.From the entry touch
  • Save electricity by turning off the lights when you leave the room.From the entry save

Meaning of light

  1. noun Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
  2. noun Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye or in nearby ranges (infrared or ultraviolet radiation).
  3. noun Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength.

Full definition of light

Questions about the plural of light

What is the plural of light?
The plural of light is lights.
Is light countable?
Light is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: light (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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