Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See light (“pale”) + -er (“comparative”)
Adjective
lighter
- comparative form of light: more light
- I prefer a lighter shade of pink.
A lighter (sense 1)
Etymology 2
See light (“ignite”) + -er (“agent”)
Noun
lighter (plural lighters)
- One who, or that which, lights.
- a lighter of lamps
- A small, reusable handheld device for creating fire, especially for lighting cigarettes.
- Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter.
Translations
fire making device
- Afrikaans: aak (af), aanbrandsteker (af), aansteker (af)
- Albanian: çakmak (sq) m
- Arabic: أخف (ar) (ʾaxaff) m, قداحة (ar) (qaddāḥa) f, ولاعة (ar) (wallāʿa) f
- Armenian: կրակվառիչ (hy) (krakvaṙič)
- Basque: pizgailu (eu), metxero (eu)
- Belarusian: запальнічка (be) (zapalʹníčka) f
- Bulgarian: запалка (bg) (zapálka) f
- Catalan: encenedor (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 打火機 (cmn), 打火机 (cmn) (dǎhuǒjī)
- Czech: zapalovač (cs) m
- Dutch: aansteker (nl) m
- Estonian: tulemasin (et), välgumihkel (et)
- Faroese: tendrari (fo) m
- Finnish: sytytin (fi), sytkäri (fi) slang, savukkeensytytin (fi), tupakansytytin (fi) (informal)
- French: briquet (fr) m
- Georgian: სანთებელა (ka) (sant'ebela)
- German: Feuerzeug (de) n, Zigarettenfeuerzeug (de) n, Zigarettenanzünder (de) m
- Gilbertese: bebete riki
- Greek: αναπτήρας (el) (anaptíras) m
- Hebrew: מצית (he) (metzit)
- Hungarian: öngyújtó (hu)
- Indonesian: korek api gas (id)
- Irish: lastóir (ga) m
- Italian: accendino (it) m
- Japanese: ライター (ja) (raitā)
- Korean: 라이터 (ko) (raiteo)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: چهرخ (ku)
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- Latvian: šķiltavas (lv)
- Lithuanian: žiebtuvėlis (lt)
- Low German: Füertüüch (nds) n
- Macedonian: запалка (mk) (zápalka) f
- Malay: lebih ringan (ms)
- Maltese: lajter (mt) m
- Manx: losseyder (gv), eddrymmey (gv)
- Mongolian: асаагуур (mn) (asaaguur)
- Persian: فندک (fa) (fandak)
- Polish: zapalniczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: acendedor (pt) m, isqueiro (pt) m
- Romanian: brichetă (ro) f
- Russian: зажигалка (ru) (zažigálka) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: упаљач (sh) m
- Roman: upaljač (sh) m
- Slovak: zapaľovač (sk) m
- Slovene: vžigalnik (sl) m
- Sotho: segôtêtši (st)
- Spanish: encendedor (es) m, briquet (es) m (Colombia, pronounced briqué), fosforera (es) f (Cuba), lighter (es) m (Panama, Puerto Rico, pronounced láiter), mechero (es) m (Spain), yesquero (es) m (Venezuela)
- Swahili: vibiriti vya chuma (sw)
- Swedish: cigarettändare (sv) c, tändare (sv) c
- Tagalog: pansindi (tl)
- Thai: ไฟแช็ก (th) (fai-cháek)
- Turkish: çakmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: запальничка (uk) (zapalʹnýčka) f
- Vietnamese: bật lửa (vi)
- Volapük: filidöm (vo)
- Zulu: into yokukhanyisa (zu)
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Etymology 3
See light (“unload, lighten”) + -er (“agent”)
Noun
lighter (plural lighters)
- A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).
Translations
a ship
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- Russian: лихтер (ru) (líχt'er), шаланда (ru) (šalánda) f
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Verb
lighter (third-person singular simple present lighters, present participle lightering, simple past and past participle lightered)
- To transfer cargo or fuel from a ship, lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.
Etymology 4
See light (“not heavy, weak”) + -er (“comparative”)
Adjective
lighter
- comparative form of light: more light
- What happened? You look 10 lbs. lighter!
- I wish I'd thrown a lighter punch; he's out cold.
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