Meanings (ES + gloss)
claro • luminoso • lumínico
Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-lik…
The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.
albarizo • blancazo • blancuzco • blanquecino • blanquinoso • blanquizco • claro • desblanquecido • desblanquiñado • musha • pálido
Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the Sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with lig…
She had light skin.
con leche
Served with extra milk or cream.
I like my coffee light.
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ligero • light
Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it.
ligero • liviano
Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
Ogden Nash was a writer of light verse.
Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
Phrases
LightfootMetropolis light transportalightenalt-lightfeather-lightlady of light virtuelarge light cruiserlight academialight airlight as a featherlight bluelight boblight breezelight carrierlight cavalrylight corn syruplight creamlight cruiserlight enginelight entertainmentlight green cell hormonlight horselight hydrogenlight icebreakerlight in the loaferslight in the sneakerslight industrylight infantrylight linelight machine gunlight meatlight novellight oillight on one's feetlight operalight raillight railwaylight rollerlight stepperlight vehicle
Meanings (ES + gloss)
luz
Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
Can you throw any light on this problem?
He shall never know / That I had any light of this from thee.
luz
A flame or something used to create fire.
Hey, buddy, you got a light?
Phrases
Bengola lightFriday night lightsRange of LightShine the Light LawSpirit of LightSpooklightSt. Elmo's lightaberration of lightantilightantilightsarc lightbad lightbatement lightbetalightbetter lightbili lightblue light banditblue light discoblue-light specialborrowed lightbright lightsbright lights and cold steelbring to lightby one's lightscan lightcast light oncatch the lightcity lightscold steel and bright lightscolour lightcolour light signalcome to lightcosmic light horizondeadlightdensity of lightelectric light bugelf-lightenlightenlightenfairy lights
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acender • encender • fogarizar
To start (a fire).
We lit the fire to get some heat.
acender (disused) • encender
To set fire to; to set burning.
She lit her last match.
if a thousand candles be all lighted from one
alumbrar • aluzar • iluminar
To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
19th century', Frederic Harrison, The Fortnightly Review One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pound…
I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
Phrases
better to light a candle than to curse the darknessbetter to light a single candle than to curse the darknessbetter to light one candle than to curse the darknessbetter to light one small candle than to curse the darknesschain-lighthighlightkick the tires and light the fireslight a fire underlight offlight onlight one's hair on firelight someone's firelight the touch-paperlight uplight up the totelight uponlight-uplightablemislightoverlightprelightrelightunlightuplight