Usually means: Signal guiding or warning device.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word beacon:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. beacon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beacon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beacon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beacon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beacon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beacon, beacon: Wordnik
  7. beacon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Beacon, beacon: Wiktionary
  9. beacon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beacon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beacon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BEACON, beacon: Dictionary.com
  13. beacon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. beacon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Beacon (Metro-North station), Beacon (Scheer), Beacon (album), Beacon (apple), Beacon (band), Beacon (comics), Beacon (disambiguation), Beacon, The Beacon (The Twilight Zone), The Beacon (University of Portland): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Beacon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. beacon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. beacon: Rhymezone
  19. beacon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. beacon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. beacon: Free Dictionary
  22. beacon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. beacon: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. BEACON, BEACON: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Beacon: Legal dictionary
  6. BEACON: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. beacon: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. BEACON: Acronym Finder
  3. beacon: A Word A Day
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beacon: Easton Bible
  2. Beacon: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. beacon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. beacon: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Beacon: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See beaconed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
noun:  (nautical) A signal, buoy, post, or other conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners, particularly to warn vessels of danger.
noun:  A high hill or other easily distinguishable object near the shore which can serve as guidance for seafarers.
noun:  (figurative) That which gives notice of danger, hope, etc., or keeps people on the correct path.
noun:  An electronic device that broadcasts a signal to nearby portable devices, enabling smartphones etc. to perform actions when in physical proximity to the beacon.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a beacon.
verb:  (transitive) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
noun:  A town in Western Australia.
noun:  A city and town in Iowa, United States.
noun:  A city in New York, United States.
noun:  A hamlet in Devon, England.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Internet) Short for web beacon. [(Internet, marketing) A web bug.]

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