TORCHLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does torchlight mean? 

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

1. light from a torch or torches

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORCHLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Light from a torch or torches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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

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

 Context examples 

About half-way down the slope to the stockade, they were collected in a group; one held the light, another was on his knees in their midst, and I saw the blade of an open knife shine in his hand with varying colours in the moon and torchlight.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)