noun
definition
A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.
Examples of lighthouse in a Sentence
There is a lighthouse at Baedlet Point.
On the north end of the beach is Absecon Lighthouse, 160 ft.
Fremiet, unveiled in 1899, and a lighthouse 174 ft.
Sombrero is maintained as a lighthouse by the British government.
The old castle of the Frasers on Kinnaird Head now contains a lighthouse, and close by is the Wine Tower, with a cave below.
It occupies the Jucar valley, south of the Sierra de Zorras, a low range of hills which terminates eastward in Cape Cullera, a conspicuous headland surmounted by a lighthouse.
The harbour, protected by breakwaters, with a lighthouse at the entrance, is well defended from the north winds, but those from the south, south-east, and south-west prove sometimes highly dangerous.
The white walls of the fortress contrast with the green tees which surround them, and the lighthouse, 117 ft.
A lighthouse overlooks the estuary.
The western heights, where is the foundation of another Roman lighthouse, form a further circuit of fortifications.
The lighthouse has since been relocated farther inland.
At the eastern entrance is the fort of St Elmo, with a lighthouse.
Finnish diet ought to refer to the imperial legislature not only all military matters - as the tsar demanded (Rescript of October 14) - but the question of the use of the Russian language in the grand-duchy, the principles of the Finnish administration, police, justice, education, formation of business companies and of associations, public meetings, the press, the customs tariff, the monetary system, means of communication, and the pilot and lighthouse system.
All these villas can be identified with more or less certainty, the best preserved being those on the east extremity, consisting of a large number of vaulted substructures and the foundations perhaps of a Pharos (lighthouse).
The tower of the Groote Kerk of St Catherine serves as a lighthouse.
This island separates the Gulf of Taranto from the deep inlet of the Mare Piccolo, and is sheltered by two other flat islands, San Pietro and San Paolo; the latter is occupied by a lighthouse.
It has a harbour at the mouth of the Persante, where there is a lighthouse.
Westward, however, it is sheltered by Cape St Blaize, on which is a lighthouse.
Early in 1892 he was again transferred to the lighthouse bureau, and until February 1895 was inspector of the third lighthouse district; and in1897-1898he was a member (and chairman) of the Lighthouse Board.
There are large glass, chemical and machine works; nuts and bolts are made, and lighthouse fittings are a specialty.
Its duties also include the military protection of the ports, the hydrographic survey of the coast, and the lighthouse service.
The trustees are conservators of the river Tawb and parts of Swansea Bay, and the pilotage and lighthouse authority of the district.
Here is an open plot of ground, Donkin Reserve, containing the lighthouse and a stone pyramid with an inscription in memory of Elizabeth, wife of Sir Rufane Donkin, described as "one of the most perfect of human beings, who has given her name to the town below."
In 1852, on the reorganization of the American lighthouse system, he was appointed a member of the new board; and in 1871 he became the presiding officer of the establishment - a position he continued to hold during the rest of his life.
To the right of the governor's house is Mount Ceperon, on which stand Fort St Michel, the marine barracks, the signal station and the lighthouse.
By the addition of a new pier running north-east from the lighthouse, and protected by a heavily armed battery, Charles III.
Staten Island to the east of Tierra del Fuego has been settled by the Argentine government; there are a prison and lighthouse at St John Harbour, and a first-class permanent meteorological and magnetic station.
On Girdleness, the southern point of the bay, a lighthouse was built in 1833.
Besides several churches and a synagogue, there are a town hall (1836), a hospital, an orphan asylum, the "palace" of the board of marine, a meteorological observatory, a zoological station and a lighthouse.
The lighthouse, built on a cliff, has a fine appearance as seen from the Dardanelles.
The harbour is fortified, and there is a small lighthouse on the eastern mole; important engineering works, subsidized by the state, were undertaken in 1902 to provide better accomodation.
From that gate the wall descended towards the Sea of Marmora, touching the water in the neighbourhood of the Seraglio lighthouse.
The Longstone Lighthouse, where her father was keeper, stands on an outer rock of the Fame Islands, which stretch north-eastward for 6 m.
In 1865 a new lighthouse was erected at the end of the north pier.
In 1871 it was found expedient to lengthen the piers seaward, and in 1876 the south jetty was prolonged, so as to bring its end exactly opposite the lighthouse on the north pier.
The lighthouse is at the end of the breakwater, of which the whole cost was nearly 12 million sterling.
From its turrets, one of which serves as a lighthouse, there are fine views of the straits and of the neighbouring countries.
A lighthouse (50 55' N., o 58' E.) stands on the ness, which has been the scene of many shipwrecks, and has been lighted since the time of James I.
This was the temporary wooden building on stilts that stood beside the half-built lighthouse to house the artificers.
Facilities are now completely automated at the lighthouse on Gull Island.
It is a large round tower made very conspicuous by the modern lighthouse perched on top.
On the near side, the seawall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.
Kate found neither but did get the chance to climb the lighthouse and watch fishing dhows in the distance heading back to Zanzibar.
Many visitors, however, will be most familiar with the lighthouse foghorn which sounds every fifteen seconds during periods of poor visibility.
At a rocky headland with a lighthouse we enjoyed a nesting colony of Silver Gulls which we could walk through.
In 1900 the three lighthouse keepers went missing in a mysterious episode and were never found.
The attempt to erect a lighthouse on a reef 12 miles off the coast was one of the heroic engineering feats of the day.
By 16.00 we had reached the lighthouse at Topo, the most easterly point of the island.
September - When RS visited the lighthouse he found everything in good order.
Here you will see the tallest lighthouse on the Adriatic.