Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Canada, Philippines, US)A battery-powered hand-held light source.

    I shone my flashlight on the strange inscription.

    Taschenlampe

    фона́рикfonárik, фона́рьfonárʹ, карма́нный фона́рьkarmánnyj fonárʹ

    ліхта́рикlixtáryk, ліхта́рlixtár

    a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

  2. A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).

  3. (obsolete)A photograph taken with a flash camera.

Examples

408 sentences
  1. Tom forgot to bring a flashlight.

    Том забув взяти ліхтарик.

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  2. Do you have a flashlight I could borrow?

    У тебе є ліхтарик, який я міг би у тебе позичити?

    ruЕсть ли у тебя вспышка, которую ты можешь мне одолжить?

    deHast du eine Taschenlampe, die ich mir mal leihen kann?

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  3. Tom gave the flashlight to Mary.

    Том дав ліхтарик Мері.

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  4. Whose flashlight is this?

    Чий це ліхтарик?

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  5. I have a flashlight.

    У мене є ліхтарик.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
battery-powered hand-held light source:
Русский
By meaning 1
battery-powered hand-held light source:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
battery-powered hand-held light source:

Origin

From flash + light.

From flash + light.

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Forms

plural: flashlights
Singularflashlight
Pluralflashlights

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a small portable battery-powered electric lamp:torch

Word family

2 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • have a flashlight
  • brought a flashlight
  • a small flashlight
  • flashlight out of
  • small flashlight

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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