beam of light

Questions about beam of light

What does beam of light mean?

beam of light means "a column of light (as from a beacon)".

What is another word for beam of light?

Close synonyms include beam, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft. 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 beam of light a common word?

beam of light is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.