lighthouse
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing shipsSynonyms: beaconbeacon lightpharos
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Lighthouse \Light"house`\ (l[imac]t"hous`), n.; pl. Lighthouses (l[imac]t"houz`[e^]z). A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos. [1913 Webster]
The Devil's Dictionary
LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician.