sea-light
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Light from the sea, either due to reflection off the waves or from bioluminescence.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A damp mist filled the room and the musty-coloured books that lined the walls were bathed in eerie sea-light."
- "There it is: an octagonal shaped white house with a thatched roof, my bedroom with the grey sea-light streaming through slanted windows."
- "It is she, they say, who is waving festival lanterns down there, making such beautiful sea-lights."
- "The elevation of the lantern above the sea should not, if possible, for sea-lights, exceed 200 feet ; and about 150 feet is sufficient, under almost any circumstances, to give the range which is required."
- "For the good of man, his father and grandfather planted the high sea-lights upon the Inchcape and the Tyree Coast."
- "On it's trial as a sea-light at Havre the result was unsatisfactory, as the compromise of merging two different curves in the design halved the concentration of light obtainable from a complete parabolic reflector without gaining sufficient compensation from the wider spread of weak light from the elliptic portion."