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Meanings of pharos in English

Portuguese
farol
Catalan
far

A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.

farol
Synonyms
Examples for "beacon"
Examples for "beacon"
1
Yet, arriving home, I'd felt hope on seeing the pulsing red beacon.
Devil Bones
2
Everdeen becomes a beacon of hope for freedom against the totalitarian government.
Reuters
3
The problem is I have no beacon, nothing to look forward to.
Assholes finish first
4
He held Turkey up as a beacon of hope in the region!
The Irish Times
5
It took several days of hard labour to build my secret beacon.
Kensuke’s Kingdom
1
The school has become a 'lighthouse' school for children with learning challenges.
Radio NZ
2
Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
The Irish Times
3
This was the smallest number of persons hitherto left in the lighthouse.
Records of a Family of Engineers
4
Today, the lighthouse remains one of the most recognizable symbols of Boston.
Wired
5
The new machines of smart light would dwell inside this lighthouse tower.
Wired
1
A few turns of the creek and a beacon light shone below.
A Knight of the Cumberland
2
No beacon light, no anticollision light, no lights in the cabin windows.
The strain
3
And why is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre a beacon light?
Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
4
You kiss Dickie when you leave my Aura, you little beacon light.
Hidden Creek
5
The lamp of history is the beacon light of many lives.
The Grand Old Man / Or, the Life and Public Services of the Righ...
Usage of pharos in English
1
It will reach the Alveus Steganus in a moment, and pass the pharos.
A Thorny Path — Volume 06
2
He reached the foot of the pharos.
Salammbo
3
She increased before his eyes to an enormous size and alighted upon the pharos erected by Sostratus.
Arachne — Volume 08
4
Edrisi thus describes it:-Thispharos has not its like in the world for skill of construction and solidity.
Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands
5
There was a remarkable pharos built at Ostia by the Emperor Claudius, which was erected on an artificial breakwater.
Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands
6
Halfway clearings for coffee-plantations, with a lime-washed bungalow, the President's country-quarters, lead to the feathered and forested crest which bears the 'pharos.'
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II
7
She wears a girdle that blazes like that pharos at Dubræ, which I have seen; she goes belted with flame that dazzles the eyes.
Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain
8
The Pharos didn't feel like an island any longer, and neither did Tyre.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
9
The island of Pharos lies just off the coast of Egypt.
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca / Adapted from the Third Book of th...
10
Next came a great struggle for the possession of the Pharos.
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
11
The Pharos was said to have been four hundred feet high.
Cleopatra
12
This weekend there was one word on the lips of music fans: PHAROS.
Radio NZ
13
Close to Dover Castle, for example, stands an ancient Pharos of this description.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
14
Did Christians build that Pharos there on the left horn-wonderof the world?
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
15
And standing wondrously tall in the harbor, the Pharos lighthouse welcomed them all.
Lily of the Nile
16
They offer themselves as the Pharos of the people, but ah!
Beulah
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Translations for pharos
Portuguese
farol
Catalan
far
Pharos through the time