Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lighthouse: same as pharos.
- n. The approach to a port; the roads.
Wiktionary
- n. beacon
- n. lighthouse
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
- n. Hence, a harbor.
Examples
“A little rule I learnt in the UK about determining the gender of a french noun (which, despite being french, I never realised!), the general rule is if a word finishes with a vowel, its gender is feminine … although, as ever with these rules, there are 3 tons of exceptions (The phare of No 2 above being a prime example!)”
“I walked past the phare, first stopping to read the plaque with its dédicace to the beloved French pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.”
“French vocabulary: le phare (m) = lighthouse; la dédicace (f) = inscription; la balade (f) = stroll, walk; la famille (f) = family; Salut, Maman.”
“Lighthouse flashed its warning in through our open bedroom window all the night long and made us dream of wicked and unworldly monster automobiles bearing down upon us with a great blazing _phare_ which blotted out all else.”
“But it is now close on midnight, and we are drawing near land; the eye of the French _phare_ grows fiercer and more glaring, until, close on midnight, the traveller finds the blinding light flashed full on him, as the vessel rushes past the wickerwork pier-head.”
“De même que votre magnifique édifice domine votre cité, de même la pensée dominante de votre université est d'être le phare sur lequel se dirige le peuple dans l'espérance que cette émulation tendra à nous diriger vers de hautes et nobles destinées.”
“C'est de n'plus voir mon père qui danse Je me souviens d'un phare Je me souviens d'un signe”
“En accusant Goldman Sachs de fraude, le gendarme de la Bourse américain fait vaciller la banque phare de”
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“The form of the spire, vaguely reminiscent of a minaret, has also given the church its nickname - le phare du quartier (the district lighthouse), an affectionate term for what has become a beacon in this multicultural area of Paris.”
“Interview "à chaud" de Ralph à propos de son produit phare et de son développement sous”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phare’.
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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tamerlane, rickett, bastan, barnum, byssus, carys, lyris, vidler, morphos, leafwing, phaon, scudder and 238 more...
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To the Lighthouse
Words having to do with lighthouses and beacons.
Fresnel lens, frost-lamp, cresset, lightroom, lightage, beaconage, eclipser, lampist, light-keeper, pharology, fanal, minar and 16 more...
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.light
phot, periscian, rushlight, phare, iridal, Fresnel lens, frost-lamp, cresset, pharology, firebare
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janusword's lovelywords
the basic start-off list of lovely words.
caravel, beatrice, venison, thunderbird, arrythmia, froufrou, skate egg, phare
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