See alight on Wiktionary
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"t": "to descend from a place: to dismount, get off; to descend to a place: to arrive or stop (at a place); to land; to drop; to attack; of lightning: to strike; to leap on to, mount; to descend in rank; to cause (someone) to lose rank; to come forth, spring from; to alleviate, relieve; (Christianity) of Jesus: to come down to earth from heaven, become incarnate; to descend (to hell); of the Holy Spirit, angels, miracles, etc.: to descend (from heaven); to descend (upon someone); to appear in a place"
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"expansion": "Middle English alighten (“to descend from a place: to dismount, get off; to descend to a place: to arrive or stop (at a place); to land; to drop; to attack; of lightning: to strike; to leap on to, mount; to descend in rank; to cause (someone) to lose rank; to come forth, spring from; to alleviate, relieve; (Christianity) of Jesus: to come down to earth from heaven, become incarnate; to descend (to hell); of the Holy Spirit, angels, miracles, etc.: to descend (from heaven); to descend (upon someone); to appear in a place”)",
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"t2": "to ease, lighten; to take off; to unload; to dismount; (archaic) to come down, land; to dismount"
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"expansion": "Middle Low German erlichten (“to lighten”)",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English alighten (“to descend from a place: to dismount, get off; to descend to a place: to arrive or stop (at a place); to land; to drop; to attack; of lightning: to strike; to leap on to, mount; to descend in rank; to cause (someone) to lose rank; to come forth, spring from; to alleviate, relieve; (Christianity) of Jesus: to come down to earth from heaven, become incarnate; to descend (to hell); of the Holy Spirit, angels, miracles, etc.: to descend (from heaven); to descend (upon someone); to appear in a place”) [and other forms], from a merger of:\n* Old English ālīhtan (“to alight, dismount”), from ā- (prefix meaning ‘away, from, off, out’) + līhtan, līehtan (“to descend, alight, light; to make easy or light, alleviate, lighten, relieve”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“not heavy, light”); and\n* Old English ġelīhtan (“to descend; to come down, dismount; to make easy or light, alleviate, lighten, relieve”), from ġe- (intensifying prefix, attached to verbs to indicate completeness or perfection) + līhtan, līehtan (see above).\nThe English word is analysable as a- (prefix meaning ‘away, from, off, out’) + light (“to ease, lighten; to take off; to unload; to dismount; (archaic) to come down, land; to dismount”).\ncognates\n* Middle Low German erlichten (“to lighten”)\n* Old High German gilīhten (“to make less heavy, lighten”) (Middle High German gelīhten); Old High German irlīhten (“to alleviate”) (Middle High German erlīhten, modern German erleichten)",
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"(transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve."
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"text": "He alighted from his horse.",
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"text": "Passengers are alighting from the carriage.",
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"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ix]:",
"text": "Madam, there is a-lighted at your gate / A yong Venetian, one that comes before / To ſignifie th'approaching of his Lord, / From whom he bringeth ſenſible regreets; […]",
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"ref": "1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Rancke-riders, the Manner of Cozening Inn-keepers, Post-maisters and Hackny-men”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: […] [Hazell, Watson, & Viney] for private circulation only, published 1885, →OCLC, page 251:",
"text": "He that neuer alights off a rich Farmer or country Gentleman, till he haue drawne money from him, is called The Snaffle.",
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"ref": "1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Of the Nevvest and Strangest Aduenture, that in All the Course of This History Befell Don Quixote”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Edward Blount, →OCLC, page 461:",
"text": "The Horſemen all alighted, and the footmen taking Don Quixote and Sancho forcibly in their Armes, they ſet them in the Court, […]",
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"ref": "1742, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXVII”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; and sold by C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 351:",
"text": "The Coach ſet us down by the Side of a large Common, about five Miles diſtant from our Houſe; and we alighted, and walked a little Way, chuſing not to have the Coach come nearer, that we might be taken as little Notice of as poſſible; […]",
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"ref": "1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, pages 103–104:",
"text": "[M]aking as if he would have alighted from off his horſe, as he was poiſing himſelf on the mounting ſide, he moſt nimbly (with his ſhort ſword by his thigh) ſhifting his feet in the ſtirrup and performing the ſtirrup-leather feat, whereby, after the inclining of this body downwards, he forthwith launched himſelf aloft into the air, and placed both his feet together upon the ſaddle, ſtanding upright, with his back turned towards his horſe's head,— […]",
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"ref": "1777, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 7th edition, London: […] S. Crowder, […]; J. Sewell, […]; W. Johnston, […]; and B. Law, […], →OCLC, page 177:",
"text": "What courſe to take, whether to proceed or retreat, we could not tell; but it was not long before the wolves themſelves made us come to a reſolution: […] [D]eſiring them to alight, we ſtood in a triangle, or three fronts, encloſing our horſes in the centre, the only place where we could preſerve them.",
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"ref": "1887, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp”, in Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume III, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 157:",
"text": "Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.",
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"ref": "1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: A Surprise at Didcot”, in The Railway Magazine, Westminster, London: IPC Transport Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 452:",
"text": "Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta—what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know!—got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.",
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"ref": "2021 November 3, Paul Stephen, “As Far North as You Can Go … to Thurso”, in Rail, number 943, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:",
"text": "That, combined with the fact that I alight with only four or five other passengers, is a sad reminder of how most people continue to choose to travel to this far-flung corner of the UK.",
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"word": "laskeutua"
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"word": "aussteigen"
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"word": "makere"
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"word": "tau"
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"word": "whakaeke"
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"word": "descer"
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"word": "desembarcar"
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"word": "coborî"
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"roman": "spéšivatʹsja",
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"note": "from a horse",
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"word": "выходи́ть"
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"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
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"word": "вы́йти"
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"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "apearse"
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"word": "bajarse"
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"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "stiga av"
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"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "xuống xe"
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"text": "A flying bird alights upon a tree.",
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"text": "Snow alights on a roof.",
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{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20, page 38:",
"text": "His fearefull freends vveare out the vvofull night, / Ne dare to vveepe, nor ſeeme to vnderſtand / The heauie hap, vvhich on them is alight, / Affraid, leaſt to themſelues the like miſhappen might.",
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},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 395–397:",
"text": "Then from his loftie ſtand on that high Tree / Down he alights among the ſportful Herd / Of thoſe fourfooted kindes, himſelf now one, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XXIII”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, pages 108–109, lines 1038–1041:",
"text": "The wounded Bird, e'er yet ſhe breath'd her laſt, / With flagging Wings alighted on the Maſt, / A Moment hung, and ſpread her Pinions there, / Then ſudden dropt, and left her Life in Air.",
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},
{
"ref": "1819, Lord Byron, Mazeppa, a Poem, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, pages 41–42, lines 770–777:",
"text": "I saw the expecting raven fly, / Who scarce would wait till both should die, / Ere his repast begun; / He flew, and perch'd, then flew once more, / And each time nearer than before; / I saw his wing through twilight flit, / And once so near me he alit / I could have smote, but lack'd the strength; […]",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, “The World of Charles Pearson”, in Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, paperback edition, London: Profile Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 25:",
"text": "In 1851 the Great Northern Railway had reached London and began operating into a terminus at Maiden Lane, just north of the New Road [later renamed Euston Road]. In 1854 they moved up to the New Road itself, with the opening of King's Cross station, east of Euston. The railways were alighting on the New Road like birds perching on a branch (the Midland Railway would open St Pancras, between Euston and King's Cross in 1868), and [Charles] Pearson took note.",
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[
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],
[
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"settle"
],
[
"land",
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],
[
"lodge",
"lodge#Verb"
],
[
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]
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],
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[
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"ref": "1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 251, lines 555–556:",
"text": "But ſtorms of Stones, from the proud Temple's height, / Pour down, and on our batter'd Helms alight.",
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}
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[
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[
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[
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],
[
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],
[
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"come upon"
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],
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"(intransitive)",
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],
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},
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},
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"word": "bukkan"
},
{
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"ref": "1626 February 19 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), Iames Shirley [i.e., James Shirley], The Maides Revenge. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] C[otes] for William Cooke, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act II:",
"text": "Madam, heres a pretty hanſome ſtripling, nevv alight, / Enquires for Don Antonio.",
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],
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"(obsolete) To arrive."
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"obsolete"
]
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"1": "en",
"2": "a",
"3": "light",
"pos1": "prefix meaning ‘away, from, off, out’",
"t2": "to ease, lighten; to take off; to unload; to dismount; (archaic) to come down, land; to dismount"
},
"expansion": "a- (prefix meaning ‘away, from, off, out’) + light (“to ease, lighten; to take off; to unload; to dismount; (archaic) to come down, land; to dismount”)",
"name": "prefix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "erlichten",
"t": "to lighten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German erlichten (“to lighten”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "gilīhten",
"t": "to make less heavy, lighten"
},
"expansion": "Old High German gilīhten (“to make less heavy, lighten”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "gelīhten"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German gelīhten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "irlīhten",
"t": "to alleviate"
},
"expansion": "Old High German irlīhten (“to alleviate”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "erlīhten"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German erlīhten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "erleichten"
},
"expansion": "German erleichten",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English alighten (“to descend from a place: to dismount, get off; to descend to a place: to arrive or stop (at a place); to land; to drop; to attack; of lightning: to strike; to leap on to, mount; to descend in rank; to cause (someone) to lose rank; to come forth, spring from; to alleviate, relieve; (Christianity) of Jesus: to come down to earth from heaven, become incarnate; to descend (to hell); of the Holy Spirit, angels, miracles, etc.: to descend (from heaven); to descend (upon someone); to appear in a place”) [and other forms], from a merger of:\n* Old English ālīhtan (“to alight, dismount”), from ā- (prefix meaning ‘away, from, off, out’) + līhtan, līehtan (“to descend, alight, light; to make easy or light, alleviate, lighten, relieve”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“not heavy, light”); and\n* Old English ġelīhtan (“to descend; to come down, dismount; to make easy or light, alleviate, lighten, relieve”), from ġe- (intensifying prefix, attached to verbs to indicate completeness or perfection) + līhtan, līehtan (see above).\nThe English word is analysable as a- (prefix meaning ‘away, from, off, out’) + light (“to ease, lighten; to take off; to unload; to dismount; (archaic) to come down, land; to dismount”).\ncognates\n* Middle Low German erlichten (“to lighten”)\n* Old High German gilīhten (“to make less heavy, lighten”) (Middle High German gelīhten); Old High German irlīhten (“to alleviate”) (Middle High German erlīhten, modern German erleichten)",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alights",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "alighting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "alighted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "alighted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "alit",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "alit",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"past2": "alit"
},
"expansion": "alight (third-person singular simple present alights, present participle alighting, simple past and past participle alighted or alit)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "alighten"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve."
],
"links": [
[
"make",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"less",
"less#Adverb"
],
[
"heavy",
"heavy#Adjective"
],
[
"lighten",
"lighten"
],
[
"alleviate",
"alleviate"
],
[
"relieve",
"relieve"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve."
],
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{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "alighten"
}
],
"tags": [
"also",
"figuratively",
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He alighted from his horse.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Passengers are alighting from the carriage.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ix]:",
"text": "Madam, there is a-lighted at your gate / A yong Venetian, one that comes before / To ſignifie th'approaching of his Lord, / From whom he bringeth ſenſible regreets; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Rancke-riders, the Manner of Cozening Inn-keepers, Post-maisters and Hackny-men”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: […] [Hazell, Watson, & Viney] for private circulation only, published 1885, →OCLC, page 251:",
"text": "He that neuer alights off a rich Farmer or country Gentleman, till he haue drawne money from him, is called The Snaffle.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Of the Nevvest and Strangest Aduenture, that in All the Course of This History Befell Don Quixote”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Edward Blount, →OCLC, page 461:",
"text": "The Horſemen all alighted, and the footmen taking Don Quixote and Sancho forcibly in their Armes, they ſet them in the Court, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1742, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXVII”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; and sold by C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 351:",
"text": "The Coach ſet us down by the Side of a large Common, about five Miles diſtant from our Houſe; and we alighted, and walked a little Way, chuſing not to have the Coach come nearer, that we might be taken as little Notice of as poſſible; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, pages 103–104:",
"text": "[M]aking as if he would have alighted from off his horſe, as he was poiſing himſelf on the mounting ſide, he moſt nimbly (with his ſhort ſword by his thigh) ſhifting his feet in the ſtirrup and performing the ſtirrup-leather feat, whereby, after the inclining of this body downwards, he forthwith launched himſelf aloft into the air, and placed both his feet together upon the ſaddle, ſtanding upright, with his back turned towards his horſe's head,— […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1777, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 7th edition, London: […] S. Crowder, […]; J. Sewell, […]; W. Johnston, […]; and B. Law, […], →OCLC, page 177:",
"text": "What courſe to take, whether to proceed or retreat, we could not tell; but it was not long before the wolves themſelves made us come to a reſolution: […] [D]eſiring them to alight, we ſtood in a triangle, or three fronts, encloſing our horſes in the centre, the only place where we could preſerve them.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1887, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp”, in Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume III, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 157:",
"text": "Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: A Surprise at Didcot”, in The Railway Magazine, Westminster, London: IPC Transport Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 452:",
"text": "Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta—what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know!—got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 November 3, Paul Stephen, “As Far North as You Can Go … to Thurso”, in Rail, number 943, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:",
"text": "That, combined with the fact that I alight with only four or five other passengers, is a sad reminder of how most people continue to choose to travel to this far-flung corner of the UK.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop."
],
"links": [
[
"from",
"from"
],
[
"off",
"off#Preposition"
],
[
"get off",
"get off"
],
[
"animal",
"animal"
],
[
"riding",
"ride#Verb"
],
[
"dismount",
"dismount#Verb"
],
[
"descend",
"descend"
],
[
"exit",
"exit#Verb"
],
[
"vehicle",
"vehicle"
],
[
"complete",
"complete#Verb"
],
[
"journey",
"journey#Noun"
],
[
"stop",
"stop#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop."
],
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{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "alighten"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "light"
},
{
"word": "disembark"
},
{
"word": "debark"
},
{
"word": "get off"
},
{
"word": "get out"
},
{
"word": "unlight"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A flying bird alights upon a tree.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Snow alights on a roof.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20, page 38:",
"text": "His fearefull freends vveare out the vvofull night, / Ne dare to vveepe, nor ſeeme to vnderſtand / The heauie hap, vvhich on them is alight, / Affraid, leaſt to themſelues the like miſhappen might.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 395–397:",
"text": "Then from his loftie ſtand on that high Tree / Down he alights among the ſportful Herd / Of thoſe fourfooted kindes, himſelf now one, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XXIII”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, pages 108–109, lines 1038–1041:",
"text": "The wounded Bird, e'er yet ſhe breath'd her laſt, / With flagging Wings alighted on the Maſt, / A Moment hung, and ſpread her Pinions there, / Then ſudden dropt, and left her Life in Air.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1819, Lord Byron, Mazeppa, a Poem, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, pages 41–42, lines 770–777:",
"text": "I saw the expecting raven fly, / Who scarce would wait till both should die, / Ere his repast begun; / He flew, and perch'd, then flew once more, / And each time nearer than before; / I saw his wing through twilight flit, / And once so near me he alit / I could have smote, but lack'd the strength; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, “The World of Charles Pearson”, in Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, paperback edition, London: Profile Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 25:",
"text": "In 1851 the Great Northern Railway had reached London and began operating into a terminus at Maiden Lane, just north of the New Road [later renamed Euston Road]. In 1854 they moved up to the New Road itself, with the opening of King's Cross station, east of Euston. The railways were alighting on the New Road like birds perching on a branch (the Midland Railway would open St Pancras, between Euston and King's Cross in 1868), and [Charles] Pearson took note.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest."
],
"links": [
[
"at",
"at"
],
[
"on",
"on#Preposition"
],
[
"upon",
"upon"
],
[
"aloft",
"aloft"
],
[
"settle",
"settle"
],
[
"land",
"land#Verb"
],
[
"lodge",
"lodge#Verb"
],
[
"rest",
"rest#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(also figuratively) Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest."
],
"tags": [
"also",
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To come down or go down; to descend."
],
"links": [
[
"come down",
"come down"
],
[
"go down",
"go down"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(archaic)",
"To come down or go down; to descend."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 251, lines 555–556:",
"text": "But ſtorms of Stones, from the proud Temple's height, / Pour down, and on our batter'd Helms alight.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Often followed by on or upon: of a blow, something thrown, etc.: to land heavily."
],
"links": [
[
"blow",
"blow#Noun"
],
[
"thrown",
"throw#Verb"
],
[
"heavily",
"heavily"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(archaic)",
"Often followed by on or upon: of a blow, something thrown, etc.: to land heavily."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon."
],
"links": [
[
"find",
"find#Verb"
],
[
"accident",
"accident"
],
[
"chance upon",
"chance upon"
],
[
"come upon",
"come upon"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(figuratively) Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1626 February 19 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), Iames Shirley [i.e., James Shirley], The Maides Revenge. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] C[otes] for William Cooke, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act II:",
"text": "Madam, heres a pretty hanſome ſtripling, nevv alight, / Enquires for Don Antonio.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To arrive."
],
"links": [
[
"arrive",
"arrive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(obsolete) To arrive."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "ə-līt'",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈlaɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪt"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "slízam",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "сли́зам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "baixar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "sesednout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vysednout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vystoupit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "afstappen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "uitstappen"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "maha tulema"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "väljuma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "laskeutua"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "aussteigen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katevaíno",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "κατεβαίνω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "kiszáll"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "leszáll"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "makere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "tau"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "whakaeke"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "descer"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "desembarcar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "coborî"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spéšivatʹsja",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "спе́шиваться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "from a horse",
"roman": "spéšitʹsja",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "спе́шиться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyxodítʹ",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "выходи́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výjti",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вы́йти"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "apearse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "bajarse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "stiga av"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to get off an animal which one has been riding; to descend or exit from a vehicle",
"word": "xuống xe"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kacam",
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