spotlight

English

Etymology

From spot +‎ light

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: spot‧light

Noun

spotlight (plural spotlights)

1. A bright, directional light or lamp, especially one used to illuminate the focus or center of attention on a stage.
2. The circle of light shed by a spotlight.
3. The center of attention; the highlight or most important part.

   Some people enjoy the spotlight.

Hypernyms

• light

Translations

a bright lamp, especially one used to illuminate the center of attention on a stage

• Catalan: focus (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聚光燈／聚光灯 (zh) (jùguāngdēng), 聚光灯 (zh) (jùguāngdēng), 聚光 (zh) (jùguāng)

• Dutch: spotlight (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: spoto (eo)
• Finnish: valonheitin (fi), kohdevalo
• French: projecteur (fr) m
• German: Scheinwerfer (de) m
• Hungarian: reflektor (hu)
• Italian: riflettore (it) m
• Manx: spohthoilshey m
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• Maori: tīwhiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søkelys (no) n

• Persian: نورافکن (fa) (nurafkan), پروژکتور (fa) (prožektor)
• Portuguese: refletor (pt) m, holofote (pt) m
• Russian: проже́ктор (ru) m (prožéktor)
• Scottish Gaelic: solas mòr m
• Spanish: foco (es) m, proyector (es) m
• Swedish: strålkastare (sv) c, spotlight (sv) c
• Thai: สบอตไลท์
• Turkish: spot lambası

the circle of light shed by a spotlight

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: valokeila
• German: Scheinwerferlicht (de) n, Schlaglicht (de) n
• Hungarian: reflektorfény
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• Manx: spohthoilshey m
• Portuguese: holofote (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: solas mòr m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: slagljus n, strålkastarljus n

the center of attention; the highlight or most important part

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聚光燈／聚光灯 (zh) (jùguāngdēng), 聚光灯 (zh) (jùguāngdēng)

• Finnish: huomion keskipiste
• Japanese: スポットライト (supottoraito)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søkelys (no) n

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• Portuguese: holofotes m pl
• Russian: центр внима́ния m (centr vnimánija)
• Serbo-Croatian: centar pozornosti, vidjelo (sh) c
• Spanish: foco de atención m
• Swedish: fokus (sv) n, strålkastarljus n

Verb

spotlight (third-person singular simple present spotlights, present participle spotlighting, simple past and past participle spotlighted or spotlit)

1. (transitive) To illuminate with a spotlight.

   We spotlight the star, but the supporting cast has all the great lines in this scene.

2. (transitive, figurative) To draw attention to.

   The news series served to spotlight corruption.

Hypernyms

• light

Translations

illuminate with a spotlight

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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• Finnish: valaista (fi)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

draw attention to

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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• Finnish: kiinnittää huomiota
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

References

• spotlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lightpost, stop light, stoplight, toplights