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Definitions in simple English

beacon Noun

— A beacon is used to give notices; usually warnings. If the beacon lights up, it means that enemies are approaching. — A beacon is an electronic device that broadcast signals.

beacon

— noun a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance — noun a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships — verb guide with a beacon — verb shine like a beacon — noun (= radio beacon) a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes

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beacon English » English

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Topics beacon topics

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Light source

What words refer to something that makes light?

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Simple sentences

It brings a beacon of hope.

We cannot achieve impossible things, but they act as a beacon for us.

The lit skyscraper served as a beacon, welcoming those who came to the city.

Movie subtitles

And then I raised my hat in honor of your country, the one true beacon of culture and civilization.

Out of the night came the Little Fellow, towards the dancehall, that beacon light of pleasure, that retreat of lost dreams.

Considering the candidates who answer to the high qualifications of senators, one name shone out like a beacon.

One man lighting a cigarette stands out like a beacon from 5000 feet up.

In all fairness, I must confess the nights here seem more beautiful than at Beacon Hill.

Julia, I want this cathedral to stand like a great beacon.

I kept dry branches ready to flame into a mighty beacon.

Beacon: 084.

Beacon: 116.

A regular salmon run up Beacon Hill.

Get ready to drop a beacon.

We're dropping the beacon.

Quadrant 73. Direct course by beacon.

Now then, light beacon fires.

Can you make out the beacon light?

Up to the beacon with you. Quick.

Somewhere on the shore, a beacon is going out.

We have no beacon and no landing lights.

Bataan has fallen. But the spirit that made it a beacon to all lovers of liberty will never falter.

Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy and your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy.

You there in that control tower, I want you to throw off all your switches put out that beacon.

You should feel proud to belong to that beacon of civilization which lights the way, which guides the world, which. Eh?

You see, this way he operates like a radio beacon.

When Lydia is hallucinating, she is basically exposed to the whole supernatural world of beacon hills.

It's a different beacon hills.

That ship sailing down from Falmouth in the gale. Somewhere on the shore, a beacon is going out.

He used it like a beacon to give men hope, men building a place of their own.

They need a waiter at Beacon Fifth.

Residence 1009 South Beacon Street.

And the Monk asked us to light beacon fires on the cliff tops.

Yes, a small beacon will be lit upon the shore at two past twelve.

Let it stand like a beacon for eternity!

Listen, Inspector, it's Adriana's beacon, we have a lead,come!

Sir, I'm picking up a ship's disaster beacon.

All I get is the automatic beacon.

I'm still getting the distress beacon, but there's heavy subspace interference.

News and current affairs

Instead, it is a beacon of failure - one that contributes to global sluggishness on children's rights in the international arena.

To lose Indonesia - a potential beacon of hope to all pro-democracy activists in the world Muslim community - would be a terrible defeat.

In fact, Blair is reportedly not very interested in these changes, but it is they-not some beacon of British prosperity and social justice-that are his lasting legacy.

France, of all countries, would avoid the trap that snared the other great Western republic claiming to be a beacon of freedom in the world.

And when the company does screw up - as with Beacon and more recently its plans for user data-sharing with favored vendors such as Pandora - it needs to show more humility.

Although Britain was a beacon of democracy in the twentieth century, it did not extend this principle to an empire that held sway over more people and territory than any previous world power.

But Europe's new eastern members can also act as a beacon for the Union, as Jacques Rupnik suggests.

NATO is supposed to be a beacon for countries struggling to establish democracy and freedom.

After being its own - and thus the world's - worst enemy for centuries, Europe became a beacon of peace.

But the belief that America is the only virtuous country, the sole beacon of light in a dark and unstable world, continues to shape many Americans' worldview.

Unfortunately, instead of reaching out to endangered nations like Ukraine, the EU beacon remains dark and its leaders silent.

We want Ghana to become a beacon in West Africa.

It will be the Tunisians themselves who will create the new system, one that may serve as a beacon for what a twenty-first-century democracy might be like.

But he or she will face an uphill struggle to prove to the world that America can be a force for good, a democratic beacon that cares for the planet and that lives up to the standards that it sets for others.

The most populous and wealthiest of America's 50 states, California has long been a beacon of opportunity for talented and enterprising people from all over the world.

Instead, Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic country, has emerged as a beacon of freedom and democracy for the Muslim world.

It is a tragedy that ignorance of how much Indonesia has changed is being allowed to endanger its democratic development - and its role as a beacon of freedom and hope in the Islamic world.

The Bucharest summit suggests that the beacon has been switched off.

Liberals who welcome it as a beacon of freedom and progress in the Arab world confront those who accuse it of Islamism and religious radicalization.

One cause for this shift toward authoritarianism is that many countries no longer view the United States as a beacon of democracy and a model of stability and prosperity to be emulated.

In this fragile global environment, has America become a beacon of hope?

After all, Sweden had been a rare beacon of success in Europe in the years since the 2008 global financial crisis.

Such condescension may have been defensible when South Korea's military dictatorship needed America's political protection and security guarantee, but now the country is a beacon of democracy in East Asia.

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