Definition of Alight

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Alight

To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

To come or chance (upon).

Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.

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Alight Quotations

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.
Brian Moore

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
John Bachman

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Philip Guedalla

Alight Translations

alight in French is amerrissent, amerris, amerrissons, amerrissez
alight in German is landen
alight in Spanish is encendido
alight in Swedish is stiga av

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