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lighthousekeeper en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /laɪt.haʊs kiːpə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /laɪt.haʊs kiːpɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From lighthouse + keeper.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of lighthouse keeper.
   alt of lighthouse keeper
   • Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts. 2006, Philip Tew, Rod Mengham, British Fiction Today:
   • After this sparkling gambit, Wilson tells Holmes he has taken up the job of lighthouse-keeper at Little-Tooting-by-the-Sea, which illuminates a passage between the mainland and the island of Uffa, [...] 2003, Peter Ridgway Watt, Joseph Green, The Alternative Sherlock Holmes:
   • But I heroworship lighthousekeepers. No. Envy is closer. Or maybe jealousy. 2010, Carl MacDougall, The Devil and the Giro:
   • Because she was from the Alentejo, remarked the Lighthousekeeper's Wife, that's why she could do sopa alentejana. 1994, Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination:

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