Limelight

Synonyms for "limelight" (57 found)

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Noun(1 words)
calcium light

Strong matches (17)

Noun(2 words)
drummond lightglare

Related words (28)

Noun(2 words)
public eyespotlight

Related word relations

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Antonyms

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Synonyms

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Translations

42 translations across 19 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • qendër e vëmendjes noun (attention or notice)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • център на внимание noun (attention or notice)

Catalan

4 entries
  • bateria noun (type of stage lighting)
  • centre d'atenció noun (attention or notice)
  • llum de calç noun (type of stage lighting)
  • llum de prosceni noun (type of stage lighting)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 聚光燈 /聚光灯 noun (attention or notice)

Czech

1 entries
  • reflektor noun (type of stage lighting)

Dutch

2 entries
  • kalklicht noun (type of stage lighting)
  • spotlicht noun (attention or notice)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kalkkivalo noun (type of stage lighting)
  • parrasvalot noun (attention or notice)

French

1 entries
  • feux de la rampe noun (type of stage lighting)

Georgian

3 entries
  • დრამონდის სინათლე noun (type of stage lighting)
  • რამპის შუქი noun (type of stage lighting)
  • ყურადღების ცენტრი noun (attention or notice)

German

3 entries
  • Kalklicht noun (type of stage lighting)
  • Rampenlicht noun (type of stage lighting)
  • Rampenlicht noun (attention or notice)

Greek

1 entries
  • δημοσιότητα noun (attention or notice)

Italian

2 entries
  • lucci della rabata noun (type of stage lighting)
  • luci della ribalta noun (type of stage lighting)

Japanese

3 entries
  • フットライト noun (type of stage lighting)
  • ライムライト noun (type of stage lighting)
  • 脚光 noun (type of stage lighting)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • kalklys noun (type of stage lighting)
  • rampelys noun (attention or notice)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries
  • kalklys noun (type of stage lighting)
  • rampelys noun (attention or notice)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • destaque noun (attention or notice)
  • luz de Drummond noun (type of stage lighting)
  • luz oxídrica noun (type of stage lighting)
  • ribalta noun (type of stage lighting)

Russian

2 entries
  • свет ра́мпы noun (type of stage lighting)
  • центр внима́ния noun (attention or notice)

Spanish

4 entries
  • candilejas noun (type of stage lighting)
  • luz cálcica noun (type of stage lighting)
  • luz de candilejas noun (type of stage lighting)
  • luz serena noun (type of stage lighting)

Swedish

2 entries
  • kalkljus noun (type of stage lighting)
  • rampljus noun (attention or notice)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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I'm not accustomed to being in the limelight.

Source: tatoeba (3703079)

I was gonna do a cartwheel, but I didn't want to steal the limelight.

Source: tatoeba (3703103)

The vision of the "new German Man" is in the limelight.

Source: tatoeba (3703118)

Tom is happy to let Mary and John take the limelight.

Source: tatoeba (6369870)

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