Forelight

Quick meaning: Forelight is a noun meaning A forward positioned or forward facing light, especially one used to guide, direct, or navigate; beacon; (by extension) a signal; indicator.

Meaning

A forward positioned or forward facing light, especially one used to guide, direct, or navigate; beacon; (by extension) a signal; indicator.

More Meanings

1. Light emitted prior to or in anticipation of an event; a previous, former, or early light

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• forelights

Antonyms for forelight

Common opposites include afterlight.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forebeam, foresignal, forerunner, foreledge, foregaze, foreganger.

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