Meaning & use
Alighting
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Descending from a vehicle, or coming down and settling after flight.
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Passengers were alighting from the train onto the crowded platform.
A sparrow came alighting on the windowsill.
A note on using this word
Present participle of 'alight,' now more common in formal or literary contexts than in everyday speech.
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