sidelight
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.92 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piece of incidental information that helps one understand a subject.
Example Sentences
- "If it starts getting misty, put your sidelights on."
- "After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves."
- "A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history."
- "He is well up to form when dealing with passenger stock, notably Victorian and Edwardian and on this and on East Coast motive power he throws many sidelights."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
sidelight Examples of sidelights (canonical)
sidelights (plural)
sidelite (alternative, nonstandard)