lightsaber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From light + saber; coined by American filmmaker and philanthropist George Lucas for the Star Wars film franchise. First mentioned in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope) which was released on May 25, 1977.
Compound parts: light
saber
Inflected forms:
form: lightsabers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: light saber
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lightsabre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light or energy.
pos: noun
examples: [Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker] Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Wielding his flashlight like a lightsaber, Kyle sent golden shafts slicing through the swirling vapors.
This was the era of Star Wars, the reinvention of science fiction with the homely Luke Skywalker. But even Luke had the Force and a tie-fighter. The Doctor was a humanist, and his spacecraft was an obsolete phone box redolent of bobbies with whistles. He would never resort to lightsabre against villains, preferring to confront them with jelly babies.
Poster Power / Get the scheme behind the scene with Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection. This boxed set includes five double-sided posters with blueprints of the Death Star, R2-D2, and C-3PO, lightsabers and blasters, Darth Vader and the Millennium Falcon.
gloss: A real-world toy, prop, or device fashioned after the fictional lightsaber.
pos: noun
examples: The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سَيْف الضَّوْءِ
roman: sayf aḍ-ḍawʔi
lang: Bulgarian
word: лазерен меч
roman: lazeren meč
lang: Bulgarian
word: светлинен меч
roman: svetlinen meč
lang: Catalan
word: espasa de llum
lang: Catalan
word: sabre làser
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 光劍 /光剑
roman: guāngjiàn
lang: Czech
word: světelný meč
lang: Danish
word: lyssværd
lang: Danish
word: lasersværd
lang: Dutch
word: lichtzwaard
lang: Dutch
word: lichtsabel
lang: Esperanto
word: lumglavo
lang: Estonian
word: valgusmõõk
lang: Faroese
word: geislasvørð
lang: Finnish
word: valosapeli
lang: Finnish
word: valomiekka
lang: Finnish
word: lasermiekka
lang: Finnish
word: lasersapeli
lang: French
word: sabre laser
lang: French
word: sabre-laser
lang: French
word: sabrolaser
lang: Galician
word: espada de luz
lang: Galician
word: sabre láser
lang: Galician
word: sabre de luz
lang: German
word: Lichtschwert
lang: German
word: Laserschwert
lang: Greek
word: φωτόσπαθο
roman: fotóspatho
lang: Hebrew
word: חֶרֶב אוֹר
roman: khérev 'or
lang: Hungarian
word: fénykard
lang: Hungarian
word: lézerkard
lang: Icelandic
word: geislasverð
lang: Italian
word: spada laser
lang: Japanese
word: ライトセーバー
roman: raitosēbā
lang: Japanese
word: 光の剣
roman: hikari no ken
lang: Korean
word: 광선검
roman: gwangseon'geom
lang: Korean
word: 라이트세이버
roman: raiteuseibeo
lang: Korean
word: 광검
roman: gwanggeom
lang: Latin
word: gladius lūcidus
lang: Latvian
word: gaismas zobens
lang: Malay
word: pedang cahaya
lang: Navajo
word: bééshdíín
lang: Norwegian
word: lyssabel
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lasersverd
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lasersverd
lang: Persian
word: شمشیر نوری
roman: šamšir nuri
lang: Polish
word: miecz świetlny
lang: Portuguese
word: sabre de luz
lang: Romanian
word: sabie laser
lang: Russian
word: светово́й меч
roman: svetovój meč
lang: Russian
word: светоша́шка
roman: svetošáška
lang: Sanskrit
word: रोचसः असि
roman: rócasaḥ así
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: све̏тлоснӣ ма̏ч
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: светлосна са̏бља
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: svȅtlosnī mȁč
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: svetlosna sȁblja
lang: Slovak
word: svetelný meč
lang: Spanish
word: sable de luz
lang: Spanish
word: sable láser
lang: Spanish
word: espada de luz
lang: Spanish
word: espada láser
lang: Swedish
word: ljussabel
lang: Swedish
word: ljussvärd
lang: Swedish
word: lasersvärd
lang: Thai
word: กระบี่แสง
roman: grà-bìi sɛ̌ɛng
lang: Thai
word: ดาบเลเซอร์
roman: dàap lee-səə
lang: Thai
word: ไลท์เซเบอร์
roman: lai-see-bəə
lang: Turkish
word: ışın kılıcı
lang: Ukrainian
word: світлови́й меч
roman: svitlovýj meč
lang: Vietnamese
word: kiếm ánh sáng
lang: Yiddish
word: ליכטסייבער
roman: likhtseyber
lang: Yiddish
word: ליכטשווערד
roman: likhtshverd