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noun

plural of floodlight
as in headlights

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verb

present tense third-person singular of floodlight
as in lights

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodlights
  1. headlights
  2. lights
  3. lanterns
  4. glows
  5. candles
  6. beams
  7. chandeliers
  8. ignites
Noun
  • Brumbelow has found that cars with headlights rated highly by IIHS for visibility—which includes many but not all LED headlights—have 19% fewer nighttime crashes compared to cars with poor headlight visibility.
    — Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of headlights
Verb
  • Strobe lights zigzag across the room and confetti rains down as Ruffin blasts a smoke cannon into the roaring crowd.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
  • Her spot at the support group, which now lights a blue candle with her name etched onto it before every meeting.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 18 July 2026
Definition of lights
Noun
  • At sunset, everyone will release their lanterns across the water.
    — Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 28 July 2026
  • At times, district administrators would pull out their cellphones to take video or to wave like electronic lanterns at a rock concert.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of lanterns
Verb
  • Think golden butter blondes, radiant warm ambers, and deep brunettes with seamless dimension that glows.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 29 July 2026
  • This painstakingly restored 4K version looks and sounds gorgeous; cinematographer Dante Spinotti’s work glows with saturated vibrancy, and Michel Rubini and the Reds’ score vibrates on a spooky synth frequency.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Definition of glows
Noun
  • The Greek patriarch will light candles and then the flame is passed from one candle to the next.
    — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Definition of candles
Verb
  • SpaceX has told European officials that the proposal threatens to worsen Starlink Mobile service, which beams data to phones, including those in Ukraine.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 29 July 2026
  • Octavia Spencer beams from ear to ear at the Ride Or Die special screening in London on June 22.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
Definition of beams
Noun
  • At the end of the street is the imposing Gringotts bank with its colossal marble columns and gleaming chandeliers hanging down from a domed ceiling.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • There were three chandeliers, there were wood walls with mirrors on them.
    — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
Definition of chandeliers
Verb
  • Compressed gas ejects the missile from its vertical launch cell before its main engine ignites above the ship.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026
  • Next door in Idaho, the National Interagency Fire Center recently went to its highest preparedness level, meaning if another major fire ignites out here there won't be enough federal resources available to respond.
    — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 29 July 2026
Definition of ignites
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