lighthouse

Summary

lighthouse ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,873 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• lighthouse is a type of signal tower^[2].
• lighthouse is a type of lit beacon^[3].
• lighthouse is a type of building^[4].
• lighthouse's Commons category is recorded as Lighthouses^[5].
• lighthouse's sRGB color hex triplet is recorded as 8B4513^[6].
• lighthouse's Unicode character is recorded as ⛯^[7].
• lighthouse's Unicode character is recorded as 🛙^[8].
• lighthouse comprises lantern^[9].
• lighthouse comprises lighthouse light^[10].
• lighthouse's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lighthouses^[11].
• lighthouse's Commons gallery is recorded as Lighthouse^[12].
• lighthouse's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Lighthouses^[13].
• lighthouse's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as man_made=lighthouse^[14].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok^[15].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia^[16].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[17].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia^[20].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[21].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan^[22].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[23].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[24].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[25].
• lighthouse's described by source is recorded as Kartographer icon^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include signal tower^[2], lit beacon^[3], and building^[4].

Use and Application

Components include lantern^[9] and lighthouse light^[10].

Influence

Things named for lighthouse include Google Lighthouse^[27], an open-source software^[28] and Lighthouse^[29], a software feature^[30].

Why It Matters

lighthouse ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,873 views/month).^[1] lighthouse has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[31] lighthouse is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[32]

Entities named for lighthouse include Google Lighthouse^[27], an open-source software^[28] and Lighthouse^[29], a software feature^[30].