fairy light

1. 1.

   a small colored light used for decoration (especially at Christmas)

   Broaderlight

   United Kingdom

Questions about fairy light

What does fairy light mean?

fairy light means "a small colored light used for decoration (especially at Christmas)".

Is fairy light a common word?

fairy 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.