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noun

Spotlight n.

The projected spot or circle of light used to illuminate brilliantly a single person or object or group on the stage, leaving the rest of the stage more or less unilluminated.

Hence, conspicuous public notice. (Cant or Colloq.)

A lighting apparatus designed to throw an intense beam of light onto a small area.

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Etymology of 'Spotlight'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spotlight" Quotes from Famous Books

... Preferring the certain success to arduous striving For the more excellent things of the future. Like David his forebear, a king but no prophet, Amazingly wise in his own generation. A wizard in art of the everyday, Lord of the spotlight and dimmer, But nursing the unconquerable hope, the inviolable shade Of what in his dreams Oriental He fain would do, did not necessity drive him. His the fascination of a great personality. Who knoweth not him of the clerical collar? ...

— The Broadway Anthology • Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter J. Kingsley, Murdock Pemberton

... drew the breath of the beautiful spring air. The sun was setting in the heights of Jersey, across the Hudson, and the golden light tinted the carved stone doorway of Trubus's home, making Burke feel as though he were acting in some stage drama, rather than real life. The spotlight of Old Sol was on him as he rang the bell by ...

— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball

Words linked to "Spotlight" : limelight, lamp, spot, light, background, light up, play up, bring out, illuminate