Definitions for alights

alights a·light

Spelling: [uh-lahyt]
IPA: /əˈlaɪt/

Alights is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in alights (aghilst).

Definitions for alights

adverb, adjective

  1. provided with light; lighted up.
  2. on fire; burning.

verb (used without object)

  1. to dismount from a horse, descend from a vehicle, etc.
  2. to settle or stay after descending:
  3. to encounter or notice something accidentally.

Origin of alights

before 1000; Middle English alighten, Old English ālīhtan, equivalent to ā- a-3 + līhtan to relieve (originally an animal mount) of weight, Examples for alights

Here, Garson paid the fare, and then helped the girl to alight, and on into the hallway.

Grace's face was alight with appreciation of Mrs. Gray's gift.

On the eve of the Amanda Knox appellate verdict decision, Perugia was alight with a sort of surreal buzz.

The grapevine and the international media were alight with the buzz of the student killed by the police during the demonstration.

Mercury goes rogue again this week, causing your mind to wander and alight on the serious alterations you must make to your life.

Nor when we alight at the Pas de Soucis are these features wanting.

In Buenos Aires they overturned cars and then set them alight.

His eyes were alight; his opinions in keeping with a man who had named his daughter The Human Being Is More Precious Than Gold.

At this point we alight, our water-way being blocked for nearly a mile.

Again we take a leap of about twenty years, and alight in the midst of the Revolution.

Word Value for alights
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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