Pha"ros (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. , fr. an island in the Bay of Alexandria, where king Ptolemy Philadelphus built a famous lighthouse.]
A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
He . . . built a pharos, or lighthouse. Arbuthnot.
© Webster 1913.
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