lit

lit

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lithuanian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Replaced earlier light (from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterit of līhtan (“to light”)) due to the analogy of bite:bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”).

lit

1. simple past tense and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
2. simple past tense and past participle of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
   • 1896, Florence Merriam Bailey, A-birding on a Bronco, page 87:

     […] but finally [the bird] came to the tree and, after edging along falteringly, lit on a branch above them.

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

1. (US, dialectal) To run or light (alight).
   • 1988, April 8, “Grant Pick”, in Johnny Washington's Life‎:

     With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know!

lit (comparative more lit, superlative most lit)

1. Illuminated.

   Synonyms: lighted, luminous; see also Thesaurus:illuminated, Thesaurus:shining

   He walked down the lit corridor.

2. (slang) Intoxicated or under the influence of drugs.

   Synonyms: stoned; see also Thesaurus:stoned, Thesaurus:drunk

3. (slang) Sexually aroused (usually of a female), especially visibly sexually aroused.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:randy

4. (slang) Exciting, captivating; fun.
   • 2017, Justin Allec, Adrian Lysenko, & Kirsti Salmi, "Sounds of the City: Part VI", The Walleye, November 2017, page 8:

     DJ sets so lit the dance floor's dripping with sweat?

   • 2018, James Courtney, "Music Picks", San Antonio Current, 4 July 2018, page 39:

     If indie punk, pop-punk, post-punk, and emo happen to be your bag, this early-week show at Paper Tiger is gonna be lit.

   • 2018, Shan Kekahuna, "Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!", MauiTime, 27 December 2018, page 17:

     New Year's Eve is once a year and it's gonna be lit.

   This party is gonna be lit.

5. (slang) Excellent, fantastic; cool.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent

   • 2017, "Out with the old, in with the new", Dundrum Gazette, 8 June 2017, page 18:

     […] will keep your feet looking lit this summer thanks to the Trainer Exchange.

   • 2019, "Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in Manhattan", Art Bodega Magazine, December/January 2019:

     At his Upper East Side office, the talented doctor has a very lit and elegant office, where art canvasses the walls.

   • 2019, Alice Ridley, "Letter from the Editor", Connect Magazine, October 2019, page 4:

     The fourth article is all about autumnal leaf photography tips to get our Instagram photos looking lit.

   Those jeans are lit.

From Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.

lit (comparative litter or more lit, superlative littest or most lit)

1. (obsolete) Little.

lit (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Little.

• lite

From Middle English lit, from Old Norse litr (“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlitaz (“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Icelandic litur (“colour”), Old English wlite (“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Old English wlītan (“to gaze, look, observe”).

lit (uncountable)

1. (UK dialectal) Colour; blee; dye; stain.

• lithouse
• litmus

From Middle English litten, liten, from Old Norse lita (“to colour”), from litr (“colour”). See above.

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

1. (transitive) To colour; dye.

Short for literature.

lit (uncountable)

1. Clipping of literature.

   Do we have any lit homework tonight?

• chick lit
• lit crit
• litfan
• misery lit
• quit lit

• 'til, TIL, TLI, til

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪt]

lit

1. masculine singular passive participle of lít

From the verb líta (‘to view’).

• IPA^(key): [liːt]

lit n (genitive singular lits, uncountable)

1. short wink, view, look

• eygnabrá (wink)

• andlit (face)
• álit (trust)
• eftirlit (control)
• fyrilit (caution)
• innlit (insight)
• útlit (outlook)
• yvirlit (overview, summary)

From Old French lit, from Latin lectus.

• IPA^(key): /li/

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• Homophone: lits

lit m (plural lits)

1. bed

   Où est-il? Il dort dans son lit. ― Where is he? He's sleeping in his bed.

lit

1. third-person singular present indicative of lire

   Jean lit très souvent. ― Jean reads very often.

• “lit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

lit

1. indefinite accusative/dative singular of litur

• IPA^(key): /lit/

lit

1. air

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

lit

1. Alternative form of light

lit m (plural lits)

1. Alternative form of llit (“bed”)

• IPA^(key): /liːt/

From Old Norse hlít.

lit f or m (definite singular)

1. trust

   Eg set min lit til Gud.

   I put my trust in God.

lit

1. present tense of lite
2. imperative of lite

lìt m (definite singular lìten, indefinite plural lìter or lìtir, definite plural lìterne or lìtine)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of let

• “lit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ilt, til

From Latin lectus.

• IPA^(key): /lit/

lit m (oblique plural liz or litz, nominative singular liz or litz, nominative plural lit)

1. bed

• French: lit

lit n

1. vision
2. sight
3. vision

• líta (“to see”)

• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on lit.

• til

• IPA^(key): /lit/

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• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: lit

Borrowed from New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos).

lit m inan

1. lithium
2. (informal) lithium carbonate (drug used in the treatment of bipolar disorder)

Borrowed from Lithuanian litas.

lit m anim

1. (historical) litas (former unit of currency of Lithuania)

• lit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

lit f

1. genitive singular of lite

lit

1. sea

lit c

1. trust

• tillit

• lita

Borrowed from German Licht and English light.

lit (nominative plural lits)

1. light
2. illumination

lit (preterite litä or littä, supine litt or litti)

1. (transitive) trust, obey, follow someone’s advice

   Lit meg; ji val int ångerköft

   Follow my advice, you will not regret the purchase.

• litsam
• olitsam

lit (preterite litä)

1. (intransitive) be expensive, heavy; strain

   Hä lit på tulumodä

   It tries the patience.

lit

1. tree-bark

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind