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Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.

Example: The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.

Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.

Example: She had light skin.

(of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.

Example: I like my coffee light.

Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.

Example: a light load ; a lighter backpack after having removed the books ; light weapons

Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.

Example: feathers and cork are light ; oil is lighter than water

Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard or proper amount; clipped or diminished.

Example: to issue light coin

Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.

One who, or that which, lights.

Example: a lighter of lamps

A small, reusable handheld device for creating fire, especially for lighting cigarettes.

Example: Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter.

A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).

To transfer cargo or fuel from a ship, lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.

Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.

Example: The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.

Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.

Example: She had light skin.

(of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.

Example: I like my coffee light.

Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.

Example: a light load ; a lighter backpack after having removed the books ; light weapons

Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.

Example: feathers and cork are light ; oil is lighter than water

Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard or proper amount; clipped or diminished.

Example: to issue light coin

Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.