signal light

1. 1.

   a fire set as a signal

   Synonymssignal fire

   Broaderbeacon

Questions about signal light

What does signal light mean?

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

What is another word for signal light?

Close synonyms include signal fire. 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 light a common word?

signal 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.