How to pronounce light

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What light means

verb

Most people know light in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To land and settle, as a bird or insect does

In a sentence: The tiny blue butterfly flew down to light on the fence post.

Where it comes from: This light is a different, old word that means to come down and land, as in alight.

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