spotlight

spotlight is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer

   Synonyms: spot

2. noun. a focus of public attention

   "he enjoyed being in the limelight"

   "when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency"

   Synonyms: glare, limelight

3. verb. illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater
4. verb. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

   "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"

   Synonyms: foreground, highlight

Synonyms

spot, glare, limelight, foreground, highlight

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spotlight:

stoplight

Common word forms

spotlights, spotlighter

Words from these letters

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