shaft of light

Questions about shaft of light

What does shaft of light mean?

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

What is another word for shaft of light?

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

shaft 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.