Definition of "spotlight" []

• A strong beam of light that illuminates only a small area, used especially to center attention on a stage performer. (noun)
• A lamp that produces such a light. (noun)
• Public notoriety or prominence: She was in the spotlight after she won the marathon. (noun)
• An artificial source of light with a strongly focused beam, as on an automobile. (noun)
• To illuminate with a spotlight. (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.

• "Palin in the spotlight is a gold mine for the democrats, cutting her term short to improve her financial position shows the world that we are hypocrytes."
• "But Barbara literally rules The Aztecs; the only early story I can think of off-hand which puts a companion closer to the spotlight is also by John Lucarotti, The Massacre."
• "With Venus and Serena Williams set to meet for the seventh time in a Grand Slam final at Wimbledon on Saturday, the spotlight is as much on ..."