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A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.

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  1. n. A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
  2. n. a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
  3. A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
  4. A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erectedat the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, toserve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
  5. n:100 n a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships