torchlight

English

Etymology

From torch +‎ light.

Noun

torchlight (countable and uncountable, plural torchlights)

1. 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.

2. The light produced by a flashlight.
3. (countable, India, Malaysia, Nigeria) A torch or flashlight.

Translations

light produced by a torch

• Hungarian: fáklyafény (hu)
• Irish: solas tóirse m

light produced by a flashlight