Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of alight
He stopped the carriage and alighted.
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Nobody met me at the toy station where I alighted with my new expensive bag, and nobody answered the telephone; eventually, however, a distraught McCoo in wet clothes turned up at the only hotel of green-and-pink Ramsdale with the news that his house had just burned down - possibly, owing to the synchronous conflagration that had been raging all night in my veins.
1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC
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alighted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alighted
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