spotlight
Noun
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Noun
spotlight
- A bright, directional light or lamp, especially one used to illuminate the focus or center of attention on a stage.
- (by extension) The circle of light shed by a spotlight.
- (figurative, by extension) The center of attention; the highlight or most important part.
- Some people enjoy the spotlight.
- French: projecteur
- German: Scheinwerfer
- Italian: riflettore
- Portuguese: refletor, holofote
- Russian: проже́ктор
- Spanish: foco, proyector
- German: Scheinwerferlicht, Schlaglicht
- Portuguese: holofote
- Portuguese: holofotes
- Russian: центр внима́ния
- Spanish: foco de atención
spotlight (spotlights, present participle spotlighting; past and past participle spotlighted)
- (transitive) To illuminate with a spotlight.
- We spotlight the star, but the supporting cast has all the great lines in this scene.
- (transitive, figurative) To draw attention to.
- The news series served to spotlight corruption.
- Spanish: enfocar
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