uplight

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noun

A recessed light fixture that directs the light in an upward direction.

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Meanings

nounuplight (plural uplights)

plural uplights

  1. A recessed light fixture that directs the light in an upward direction.

    Synonyms: uplighter

verbuplight (third-person singular simple present uplights, present participle uplighting, simple past and past participle uplighted or uplit)

present singular third person uplights · participle present uplighting · participle past uplighted · past uplighted · participle past uplit · past uplit

  1. transitiveTo light up, illuminate.

    Save in the withered woods alone, where flashing bolts from Heaven Uplit the scene, and poured the fire, amid the branches riven.

    1858, The Knickerbocker, volume 51, page 80
  2. transitiveTo illuminate from below.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA recessed light fixture that directs the light in an upward direction.

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Origin

From up- + light. Compare Saterland Frisian apljuchte (“to illuminate”), West Frisian opljochtsje (“to illuminate”), Dutch oplichten (“to illuminate”), German Low German upluchten, uplüchten (“to illuminate”), German aufleuchten (“to illuminate”).

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Translations

Māori tūrama arorangi
  • tūrama arorangiTo illuminate from below
Cite this entry
APA

uplight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uplight

MLA

“uplight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uplight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uplight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uplight.

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