GASLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gaslight mean? 

• GASLIGHT (noun)
  The noun GASLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas

  Familiarity information: GASLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("gaslight" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

 Context examples 

In front of him he saw, in the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was moonlight and gaslight besides, and very still and serene.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The moonlight suddenly failed, as a great black cloud sailed across the sky; and when the gaslight sprang up under Quincey's match, we saw nothing but a faint vapour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I saw in the gaslight that Holmes wore an amused smile at this brilliant departure of mine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The gaslight which I had left lit for Jonathan, but turned down, came only like a tiny red spark through the fog, which had evidently grown thicker and poured into the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)