lit

lit

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lithuanian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Alteration of earlier light, from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterite of līhtan (“to light”)) by analogy with bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).

lit

1. simple past and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
2. simple past and past participle of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
   • 1896, Florence Merriam Bailey, A-birding on a Bronco, page 87:

     […] but finally [the bird] came to the tree and, after edging along falteringly, lit on a branch above them.

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

1. (US, dialectal) To run or light (alight).
   • 1988 April 8, Grant Pick, “Johnny Washington's Life”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know!

lit (comparative more lit, superlative most lit)

1. Illuminated.

   Synonyms: lighted, luminous; see also Thesaurus:illuminated, Thesaurus:shining

   He walked down the lit corridor.

2. (slang) Drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

   Synonyms: stoned; see also Thesaurus:stoned, Thesaurus:drunk

   • 1932, Hart Crane, letter, 16 February:

     True to my word last night, I got very lit.

3. (slang, usually of a female) Sexually aroused, (especially) visibly so.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:randy

4. (slang) Exciting, captivating; fun.
   • 2017 November, Justin Allec, Adrian Lysenko, Kirsti Salmi, “Sounds of the City: Part VI”, in The Walleye, page 8:

     DJ sets so lit the dance floor's dripping with sweat?

   • 2018 July 4, James Courtney, “Music Picks”, in San Antonio Current, page 39:

     If indie punk, pop-punk, post-punk, and emo happen to be your bag, this early-week show at Paper Tiger is gonna be lit.

   • 2018 December 27, Shan Kekahuna, “Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!”, in MauiTime, page 17:

     New Year's Eve is once a year and it's gonna be lit.

   This party is gonna be lit.

5. (slang) Excellent, fantastic; cool.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent

   • 2017 June 8, “Out with the old, in with the new”, in Dundrum Gazette, page 18:

     […] will keep your feet looking lit this summer thanks to the Trainer Exchange.

   • 2019, "Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in Manhattan", Art Bodega Magazine, December/January 2019:

     At his Upper East Side office, the talented doctor has a very lit and elegant office, where art canvasses the walls.

   • 2019 October, Alice Ridley, “Letter from the Editor”, in Connect Magazine, page 4:

     The fourth article is all about autumnal leaf photography tips to get our Instagram photos looking lit.

   Those jeans are lit.

From Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.

lit (comparative litter or more lit, superlative littest or most lit)

1. (obsolete) Little.

lit (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Little.

• lite

From Middle English lit, from Old Norse litr (“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlitaz (“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Icelandic litur (“colour”), Old English wlite (“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Old English wlītan (“to gaze, look, observe”).

lit (uncountable)

1. (UK dialectal) Colour; blee; dye; stain.

• lithouse, lit-house
• litmus

From Middle English litten, liten, from Old Norse lita (“to colour”), from litr (“colour”). See above.

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

1. (transitive) To colour; dye.

Short for literature.

lit (uncountable)

2. Clipping of literature.

   Do we have any lit homework tonight?

• wagon-lit (etymologically unrelated)

• 'til, TIL, TLI, til

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪt]

lit

1. masculine singular passive participle of lít

From the verb líta (‘to view’).

• IPA^(key): [liːt]

lit n (genitive singular lits, uncountable)

1. short wink, view, look

• eygnabrá (wink)

• IPA^(key): /li/

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• Homophones: lie, lient, lies, lis, lits

Inherited from Old French lit, from Latin lectus.

lit m (plural lits)

1. bed

   Synonym: (colloquial) plumard

   Où est-il? Il dort dans son lit. ― Where is he? He's sleeping in his bed.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lit

1. third-person singular present indicative of lire

   Jean lit très souvent. ― Jean reads very often.

• “lit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

lit

1. indefinite accusative/dative singular of litur

lit

1. alternative form of light

Inherited from Old High German hlit, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈlɪt/

lit n

1. lid, cover

• German: Lid

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “lit”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

lit m (plural lits)

1. alternative form of llit (“bed”)

• IPA^(key): /liːt/

From Old Norse hlít.

lit f or m (definite singular)

1. trust

   Eg set min lit til Gud.

   I put my trust in God.

lit

1. present tense of lite
2. imperative of lite

lìt m (definite singular lìten, indefinite plural lìter or lìtir, definite plural lìterne or lìtine)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of let

• “lit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ilt, til

From Latin lectus.

• IPA^(key): /lit/

lit oblique singular, m (oblique plural liz or litz, nominative singular liz or litz, nominative plural lit)

1. bed

• Bourguignon: leit
• French: lit
• Norman: liet

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• IPA^(key): /lit/

lit n

1. glance

• líta (“to see”)
• litr (“complexion, colour; the first dawn; dye”)

• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on lit.

• til

Chemical element
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• IPA^(key): /ˈlit/

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• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: lit
• Homophones: lead, -lit

Learned borrowing from New Latin lithium.

lit m inan

2. lithium (soft, silvery metal, the simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3)
3. (informal, organic chemistry) lithium carbonate (lithium salt of carbonic acid, Li2CO3, used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics, and medically, in the treatment of bipolar disorder)

Borrowed from Lithuanian litas.

lit m animal

2. (historical) litas (former unit of currency of Lithuania)

• lit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• lit in PWN's encyclopedia

lit f

1. genitive singular of lite

lit

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, colloquial) Abbreviation of literal.

lit

1. sea

Back-formation from lita. Compare Danish lid.

lit c

1. trust

   De satte sin lit till Gud.

   They put their trust in God.

• tillit

• lit in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• lita in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Borrowed from German Licht and English light.

lit (nominative plural lits)

1. light
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: V:

     Binols lit vola. Zif, kel topon löpo su bel, no kanon binön klänedik.

     You are light for the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden.

2. illumination

lit

1. tree-bark

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind

Cognate with Bouyei ridt (“hail”).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /lit˥/
• Tone numbers: lit⁷
• Hyphenation: lit

lit (1957–1982 spelling lit)

1. (dialectal, weather) hail

   Synonyms: lwgbag, (dialectal) haet, (dialectal) byagcaej