1 a light that is placed somewhere to guide vehicles and warn them of danger:
a navigation beacon * (figurative) He was a a beacon of hope for the younger generation.
seealsoBELISHABEACON
2 a radio station whose signal helps ships and aircraft to find their position:
The plane was guided in by radio beacon.
3 (in the past) a fire lit on top of a hill as a signal
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for beacon is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is beacon a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, beacon is tagged as noun.
Does beacon appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — beacon appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
