alight from



alight from

To get down from, or off of, something (usually a vehicle). The children alighted from the school bus on the first day of school. We've landed, but we still need to alight from the plane.
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alight from something

to get off something; to get down off something. Almost three hundred people alighted from the plane.
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Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Philo-Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Maia (1)MAY-ə (English), MIE-ə (English)Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Portuguese, Georgian
Gita-Indian, Hindi
Theodoricus-Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Aylen-Native American, Mapuche
RosamundROZ-ə-mundEnglish (Rare)