# lights

Pronunciation: say "LYTS" /laɪts/

## Noun

1. Plural of light. — plural of light
   - Simple: Plural of light. Use this when you mean more than one light.
   - _City lights glittered across the bay at midnight._
   - _The stage lights dimmed as the play began._
3. The lungs, now chiefly those of an animal, so named because they are lighter than the organs around them.
   - Simple: The lungs of an animal, often used as food.
   - _The cook simmered the lights and other offal into a rich stew._
   - _Hunters traditionally fed the lights to their hounds after a kill._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of light. — third-person singular simple present indicative of light
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of light. Use this when he, she, or it does it now.
   - _Each morning the caretaker lights the old lamps along the hallway._
   - _A single match lights the entire bonfire within seconds._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/lights (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).