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lighthouse
noun(light-house)
a structure (such as a tower) with a powerful light that gives a continuous or intermittent signal to navigators
lighthouse
noun(light-house)
beacon
lighthouse
geographical name(light-house)
lighthouse at the northern tip of a long sandy island in the Atlantic off eastern New Jersey first lit in 1859, deactivated in 1927, and relit in 2009
lighthouse
geographical name(light-house)
fourth in a series of lighthouses dating back to 1699 and constructed on Eddystone Rocks, a rocky English islet located in the English Channel 14 miles (23 kilometers) southwest of Plymouth
lighthouse
geographical name(light-house)
town on the Atlantic in eastern Massachusetts population 19,808
lighthouse
geographical name(light-house)
village in northern Ohio at the eastern end of a peninsula jutting into Lake Erie notable as the site of Marblehead Lighthouse, completed in 1822 and the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes population 903

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