Usually means: Focus or attention on someone.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word spotlight:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. spotlight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spotlight, the spotlight: Merriam-Webster
  3. spotlight, the spotlight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spotlight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spotlight, the spotlight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spotlight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spotlight, spotlight: Wordnik
  8. spotlight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Spotlight: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. spotlight: Wiktionary
  11. spotlight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. spotlight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. spotlight: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. spotlight: Dictionary.com
  15. spotlight (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. spotlight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Spotlight (Antoine Clamaran album), Spotlight (BBC News), Spotlight (Canadian TV program), Spotlight (EP), Spotlight (Jennifer Hudson song), Spotlight (Jessie Ware song), Spotlight (MUTEMATH song), Spotlight (Madonna song), Spotlight (Marshmello and Lil Peep song), Spotlight (Mutemath song), Spotlight (NI), Spotlight (South Korean TV series), Spotlight (TV channel), Spotlight (cable TV), Spotlight (company), Spotlight (directory), Spotlight (film), Spotlight (software), Spotlight (theatre lighting), Spotlight, The Spotlight (directory), The Spotlight (film), The Spotlight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. spotlight: Rhymezone
  19. spotlight: FreeDictionary.org
  20. spotlight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. spotlight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. spotlight: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spotlight: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. Spotlight (logical fallacy), spotlight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spotlight (logical fallacy): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spotlight: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spotlight: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See spotlighted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A bright, directional light or lamp, especially one used to illuminate the focus or center of attention on a stage.
noun:  (by extension) The circle of light shed by a spotlight.
noun:  (figurative) The center of attention; the highlight or most important part.
verb:  (transitive) To illuminate with a spotlight.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To draw attention to.
verb:  Synonym of jacklight (“to use a spotlight in hunting animals”)

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