Word Direct Answers

What does "beacon" mean?

Beacon: A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A high hill near the shore. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. 3.That which gives notice of danger. Modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise. Shak. Beacon fire, a signal fire.
  3. 4.To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. That beacons the darkness of heaven. Campbell.
  4. 5.To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

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