rear light

1. 1.

   lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle

   Synonymstaillighttail lamprear lamp

   Broaderlamp

   Part ofelectrical system

Questions about rear light

What does rear light mean?

rear light means "lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle".

What is another word for rear light?

Close synonyms include taillight, tail lamp, rear lamp. 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 rear light a common word?

rear 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.