A soldier who serves in the light cavalry. / (US, obsolete) A West Indian fish, Chaetodipterus faber, with a high dorsal fin and brilliant colours.

Extremely light; light as a feather.

Alternative spelling of searchlight

Used as a metaphor for the spread of wisdom.

(painting) A secondary light; an effect of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies.

The quality or state of one who is light-minded; lack of seriousness.

(idiomatic) To create a flame (using a match, flint, etc.).

(UK, informal, dated) Expressing surprise.

(architecture) A window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

(Judaism) Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights.