English
Etymology
From tail + light.
Noun
taillight (plural taillights)
- One of a pair of red lights mounted on the rear of a vehicle, so it can be seen from the rear at night.
- Synonyms: rear light, taillamp
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 162:All moved to the front street, where Grierson snibbed on his tail-light and turned to ask the trooper, "They've got the main road ploughed up farther on, haven't they?"
Translations
rear mounted lights on a vehicle
- Bulgarian: задни светлини f pl (zadni svetlini)
- Catalan: llum posterior m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 尾燈 / 尾灯 (zh) (wěidēng)
- Czech: koncové světlo n
- Dutch: achterlicht (nl) n
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- Faroese: baklykt f
- Finnish: perävalo (fi)
- French: feu arrière m
- German: Rückleuchte f, Rücklicht (de) n, Heckleuchte (de) f, Rückscheinwerfer m
- Greek: πισινό φανάρι n (pisinó fanári)
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- Irish: cúlsolas m, solas deiridh m
- Italian: fanalino di coda m
- Japanese: 尾灯 (ja) (びとう, bitō)
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- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: арын гэрэл (aryn gerel)
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- Polish: tylne światło (pl) n
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- Romanian: lampă spate f
- Russian: за́дний фона́рь m (zádnij fonárʹ)
- Spanish: luz trasera f; calavera (es) f (Mexico)
- Swedish: baklyse n, bakljus (sv) n, baklykta (sv) c
- Thai: ไฟท้าย (th) (fai-táai)
- Turkish: stop lambası, arka lamba
- Vietnamese: đèn hậu
- Welsh: golau ôl m
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