Synonym: alarm, flare, signal, watchtower. Similar words: peacock, beach, laconic, draw a conclusion, acoustics, cacophony, a couple of, each. Meaning: ['biːkən] 
n. 1. a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance 2. a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes 3. a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships. v. 1. shine like a beacon 2. guide with a beacon.
n. 1. a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance 2. a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes 3. a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships. v. 1. shine like a beacon 2. guide with a beacon. 
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(31) Education minister Estelle Morris has persuaded the company to work with 50 beacon schools to spread best practice.
(32) Her eyes swept back and forth over them as steady as a turning beacon.
(33) To find out which position line, to or from the beacon, the aircraft is on at any given moment.
(34) Senior management failed to take a lead in clarifying the role of the Beacon in the department's services to under fives.
(35) They had a drink before dinner sitting in a bay window, watching dusk creep up on Dunkery Beacon.
(36) Navigation was helped by a radio beacon set up by the Army on the island.
(37) Now, one characteristic shines like a beacon in a storm, like the sun breaking through clouds.
(38) During her 12-year tenure at Beacon, annual sales tripled and the number of titles carried annually by the Boston publisher doubled.
(39) North Hill is soon reached, then Worcestershire Beacon, but it is by no means all downhill from there.
(40) Then the pilots apparently selected a heading toward another radio beacon near the threshold of runway 19.
(41) Thus, without the TO/FROM indication, you would not know which side of the beacon you were.
(42) Beacon will acquire 3. 3 million square feet of space, bringing its total portfolio to 10 million square feet.
(43) He shielded the thin beam as best he could; he felt it was like a beacon, alerting the whole county.
(44) His vision of a fairer, kinder society shone like a beacon in those final selfless words.
(45) When checking a beacon identification, have the morse characteristics written down.
(46) When you first tune a station frequency,[www.Sentencedict.com] check the identification twice to make sure you have the right beacon.
(47) Bulger is also leaving behind bruised feelings on Beacon Hill because of his soon-to-be published memoirs.
(48) The International Hotel eviction was the beacon that drew attention to the problems of affordable housing, homelessness and poverty.
(49) Above these foundation stones compassionate capitalism rises like a beacon.
(50) Our independent media have been a beacon to the world.
(51) Please would we list our safety equipment, the radio, the distress beacon, and so forth?
(52) A beacon of hope that comes to me across the valley.
(53) Provided there was a valid card in the box, the beacon would deduct some of its value and record no details.
(54) It stood out like a beacon in that rather murky period.
(55) Following the crash the airliner's emergency radio beacon failed to function and rescue teams experienced difficulties locating the wreckage.
(56) Soon they may be virtually invisible except for a discreet beacon.
(57) The beacon was lit, and answering bonfires spread the happy news throughout the Maclean lands.
(58) The care provided by the Beacon was to transfer to special units in the remaining children's day centres.
(59) Yes, it was Roders, his bright bottom shining like a beacon in the darkness of the leaves.
(60) Something acting as locative centre or communicating beacon to these beings.
More similar words: peacock, beach, laconic, draw a conclusion, acoustics, cacophony, a couple of, each, teach, react, peace, reach, peach, bean, beam, constitutional convention, preach, teacher, beard, beads, beast, impeach, at peace, each other, reach out, preacher, outreach, react to, beaded, beauty.