forelight
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A forward positioned or forward facing light, especially one used to guide, direct, or navigate; beacon; (by extension) a signal; indicator
Example Sentences
- "Each miracle was a foretoken, and forelight, and firstfruit of the restoration of all creation. When he healed the sick, that cure was a forelight of the sickless state."
- "[...] but the indications thus outlined of this improvement seem to me but foreshadowings of still better things to come — nay, rather are they forelights — Forelights Of A More Radiant Health That Is To Be."
- "The Government regulations provide that the forelight on the large freighters shall be 40 feet above the main deck, and that the rear light shall be 15 feet above the forelight."
- "The City, it seemed to her, knew it dimly, with a yearning faint as dawn's forelight, which grew stronger with each passing hour, inevitably."
- "Early in the morning, before the first forelight of dawn had started the birds to prophetic chirpings, the recluse heard light movements in the outer room."