signal fire

1. 1.

   a fire set as a signal

   Synonymssignal light

   Broaderbeacon

Questions about signal fire

What does signal fire mean?

signal fire means "a fire set as a signal".

What is another word for signal fire?

Close synonyms include signal 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 signal fire a common word?

signal fire 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.