Lighthouse and Tower

Lighthouse

Lighthouse noun - A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.

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Tower and lighthouse are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tower" instead a noun "Lighthouse".

Nearby Word: light

Tower noun - A large, magnificent, or massive building.

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Lighthouse and tower are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Lighthouse" with "Tower", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: towering, towered

old	old lighthouse	old tower
full	full lighthouse	full tower
single	single lighthouse	single tower
visible	visible lighthouse	visible tower
Other adjectives: actual, real, massive, enormous, huge, isolated, famous, abandoned, final, crumbling, mysterious, titular, last, literal, local, nearby, giant, frozen, exploding, aforementioned, creepy, manned.

The short story Three Skeleton Key, which inspired the below-mentioned Escape episode involves lighthouse keepers being trapped inside their tower by a horde of rats.

Source: Lighthouse Point
After Dorno frees Zandor and Tarra, the enemy leader orders "Sound the alarm" and a tower starts a lighthouse-like rotating red light at its top, with a whooping siren accompaniment.

Source: Red Alert
Tundaria Tower and the Mars Lighthouse in Golden Sun, the latter being a Fire/Lava based dungeon after you defrost it, technically making it a Hail Fire Peaks level.

Source: Ice Palace

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