beacon

1. 1.

   shine like a beacon

   Broadershine
2. 2.

   guide with a beacon

   Broaderlead

Other forms of beacon

plural

beacons·

past tense

beaconned·

present participle

beaconning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beacon

What does beacon mean?

beacon means "a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beacon?

beacon has 2 syllables: bea-con. The stress falls on "bea". In IPA it is /ˈbikən/.

What is another word for beacon?

Close synonyms include beacon fire, radio beacon, lighthouse, beacon light, pharos. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beacon a common word?

beacon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with beacon?

1 word rhymes with beacon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.