light upon

Questions about light upon

What does light upon mean?

light upon means "find unexpectedly".

What is another word for light upon?

Close synonyms include fall upon, strike, come upon, chance upon, come across. 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 light upon a common word?

light upon 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.