Usually means: Descends from; comes to rest.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. alights: Merriam-Webster
  2. alights: Collins English Dictionary
  3. alights: Vocabulary.com
  4. alights: Wordnik
  5. alights: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. alights: Wiktionary
  7. alights: Dictionary.com
  8. alights: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. alights: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. alights: Legal dictionary

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  1. alights: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alight)

verb:  (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.
verb:  (also figuratively) Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
verb:  (archaic)
verb:  To come down or go down; to descend.
verb:  Often followed by on or upon: of a blow, something thrown, etc.: to land heavily.
verb:  (figuratively) Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon.
verb:  (obsolete) To arrive.
verb:  To cast light on (something); to illuminate, to light up.
verb:  To set light to (something); to set (something) on fire; to ignite, to light.
adjective:  Burning, lit, on fire.
adjective:  Often followed by with: shining with light; luminous, radiant; also, brightly coloured; vivid.
adjective:  Of an electrical light source: switched on and emitting light.
adjective:  (figuratively) Aglow with activity or emotion.
adverb:  (also figuratively) Chiefly in set alight: in flames, on fire; aflame.
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