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Meanings of lighthouses in English

Russian
маяк
Portuguese
faroleiro
Spanish
farero
Catalan
far
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Structure designed to emit light to aid navigation.

        маяк
        Usage of lighthouses in English
        1
        In the daytime, in ordinary weather, rocks and lighthouses can be seen.
        The Lighthouse
        2
        Ahead of it glowed and winked the fiery eyes of the lighthouses.
        The Secret Wireless; Or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol
        3
        And without lighthouses, the seas would continue to claim many more lives.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Down to the year 1823 coal fires were used in several lighthouses.
        A Yacht Voyage Round England
        5
        The lighthouses away out in ocean are firmly bonded into living rock.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
        6
        The towers of two lighthouses also glittered on a headland near by.
        Recollections of Europe
        7
        Here are some of the world's most beautiful lighthouses in the world.
        The South African
        8
        I'll build lighthouses myself by the dozen if the Canadian Government won't.
        Swirling Waters
        9
        They have such big eyes, like lighthouses, they can see all around.
        Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, an...
        10
        The boys were beaming like table-tanned lighthouses, standing there in their suits.
        The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
        11
        In fact, they are to the Indian what lighthouses are to the mariner.
        The Drama of the Forests: Romance and Adventure
        12
        This shows but one of the many disasters to lighthouses in Sunda Straits.
        Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
        13
        In the second place, all lighthouses are not of equal importance.
        The Lighthouse
        14
        This morning we passed several lighthouses; one was upon Tortugas Island.
        The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of t...
        15
        But it was not possible to restrict the demand to lighthouses.
        The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830
        16
        Yet lighthouses weren't always viewed as benign, hardworking defenders of life.
        The Irish Times
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        Translations for lighthouses
        Russian
        маяк
        Spanish
        farerofaro
        Catalan
        far
        Lighthouses through the time
        Lighthouses across language varieties
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