Definition of "floodlight" [floodlight]

• Artificial light in an intensely bright and broad beam. (noun)
• A unit that produces a beam of intense light; a flood. (noun)
• To illuminate with a floodlight. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We wanted to take a "floodlight" evening boat ride, but it was canceled owing to the flooding."
• "Humans, by contrast, have "floodlight" intelligence, he says: they can use a single system of thought in multiple ways and can translate information from one context to another."
• "# posted by Anonymous : 3:04 PM theres a very big drum and bass tune called "floodlight" by dj fresh that uses the "valley girl" voice...."