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flashlight

  • noun
  • flash·light
  • /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/

A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).

Other meanings

  1. A battery-powered hand-held light source.

    “I shone my flashlight on the strange inscription.”

  2. A photograph taken with a flash camera.

Synonyms

  • torch

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “flashlight” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.