headlight

English

Etymology

head +‎ light

Pronunciation

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Noun

headlight (plural headlights)

1. A bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair.
2. (US, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
3. (Canada, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's erect nipples, partially masked by clothing.
4. (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A jewel; especially a diamond.
5. (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

Synonyms

• (motor vehicle light): headlamp
• (breast): See also Thesaurus:breast.
• (nipple): See also Thesaurus:nipples.

Hypernyms

• light

Derived terms

• headlighting

Translations

bright light in front of vehicle

• Armenian: ցոլարձակ (hy) (cʻolarjak), լուսարձակ (hy) (lusarjak)
• Azerbaijani: fara
• Belarusian: фа́ра f (fára)
• Bulgarian: фар (bg) m (far)
• Catalan: far (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車燈／车灯 (zh) (chēdēng), 车灯 (zh) (chēdēng), 燈／灯 (zh), 灯 (zh) (dēng), 前照燈／前照灯 (zh) (qiánzhàodēng), 前照灯 (zh) (qiánzhàodēng) (front)

• Czech: světlomet m
• Dutch: koplamp (nl) c
• Esperanto: reflektoro (eo)
• Estonian: esilatern
• Faroese: forlykt f
• Finnish: ajovalo (fi)
• French: phare (fr) m
• Georgian: ფარა (para)
• German: Scheinwerfer (de) m, Vorderscheinwerfer m, Frontscheinwerfer m
• Greek: προβολέας (el) m (provoléas)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: हेडलाइट (heḍlāiṭ)
• Hungarian: fényszóró (hu)
• Icelandic: ökuljós
• Italian: fanale (it) m, faro (it) m, abbaglianti (it) m pl
• Japanese: ヘッドライト (heddoraito), 前照灯 (ぜんしょうとう, zenshōtō)
• Kazakh: фара (fara)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 헤드라이트 (hedeuraiteu), 전조등 (ko) (jeonjodeung)
• Kyrgyz: фара (fara)
• Macedonian: фар m (far)
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• Malay: lampu puncak
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: veue f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hovedlykt m or f

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: reflektor (pl) m
• Portuguese: lanterna (pt) f

  (Brazil): farol (pt) m

• Romanian: far (ro) n
• Russian: фа́ра (ru) f (fára)
• Scottish Gaelic: solas mòr m, prìomh-sholas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фар m

  Roman: far (sh) m

• Shan: ၽႆးၵႃး (pʰaj4 kaa4)
• Slovak: svetlomet m
• Slovene: žaromet m
• Spanish: faro (es) m
• Swedish: strålkastare (sv) c
• Tajik: чароғ (čaroġ)
• Thai: ไฟหน้า (fai-nâa)
• Turkish: far (tr)
• Ukrainian: фа́ра f (fára)
• Uzbek: fara (uz)
• Vietnamese: đèn pha, pha (vi), pha xe, đèn (vi)
• Yiddish: פֿאָנאַר m (fonar)

See also

• dome light
• fog lamp
• idiot light
• indicator
• sidelight
• taillight

References

• Eric Partridge (2005) “headlight”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 979.
• headlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia