"lighthousekeeper" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lighthousekeepers [plural]
Etymology: From lighthouse + keeper. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|lighthouse|keeper}} lighthouse + keeper Head templates: {{en-noun}} lighthousekeeper (plural lighthousekeepers)
  1. Alternative form of lighthouse keeper Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: lighthouse keeper Synonyms: lighthouse-keeper
    Sense id: en-lighthousekeeper-en-noun-HF3U93SC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1994, Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination",
          "text": "Because she was from the Alentejo, remarked the Lighthousekeeper's Wife, that's why she could do sopa alentejana.",
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          "ref": "2003, Peter Ridgway Watt, Joseph Green, The Alternative Sherlock Holmes",
          "text": "After this sparkling gambit, Wilson tells Holmes he has taken up the job of lighthouse-keeper at Little-Tooting-by-the-Sea, which illuminates a passage between the mainland and the island of Uffa, [...]",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Philip Tew, Rod Mengham, British Fiction Today",
          "text": "Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Carl MacDougall, The Devil and the Giro",
          "text": "But I heroworship lighthousekeepers. No. Envy is closer. Or maybe jealousy.",
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