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English
Etymology
From torch + light.
Noun
torchlight (countable and uncountable, plural torchlights)
- The dim light produced by a burning torch.
1953 January, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 68:A number of towns in East Sussex, and on the borders of Kent and Surrey, make a special feature of huge bonfires and torchlight processions with fireworks on Guy Fawkes day or an early November Saturday.
- The light produced by a flashlight.
- (countable, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore) A torch or flashlight.
Translations
light produced by a torch
light produced by a flashlight