lighting-up

1. 1.

   turning lights on

   “it's lighting-up time”

   Similarlight

Questions about lighting-up

What does lighting-up mean?

lighting-up means "turning lights on".

How many syllables are in lighting-up?

lighting-up has 3 syllables and divides as ligh-tin-g-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is lighting-up a common word?

lighting-up 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.