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sidelights

sidelights is the plural of sidelight.

Meaning of sidelight

Noun

sidelight (plural sidelights)

  1. A light found at the side of something; especially of a vehicle.
    • If it starts getting misty, put your sidelights on.
    1. (broadly) (nautical) Red and green navigation lights indicating each side of a ship for collision avoidance; red on the port (left) and green on the starboard.
  2. A window found at one or both sides of a door.
  3. A piece of incidental information that helps one understand a subject.
    • A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history.1957 December, “Railway Literature: Southern Electric. By G. T. Moody”, in Railway Magazine, page 892

Questions about sidelights

What is sidelights the plural of?
Sidelights is the plural of sidelight.

Words near sidelights in the dictionary

  1. sidelessness
  2. sidelifter
  3. sidelifters
  4. sidelight
  5. sidelighting
  6. sidelights
  7. sideline
  8. sideline cut
  9. sideline cuts
  10. sideline reporter
  11. sideline reporters

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