To start (a fire).
We lit the fire to get some heat.
To set fire to; to set burning.
She lit her last match.
To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
To become ignited; to take fire.
This soggy match will not light.
To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
Light the extra ball by amassing 500 million points in the wizard mode.
To find by chance.
I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.
To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
To alight; to land or come down.
She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.
To run or light (alight).
Illuminated.
He walked down the lit corridor.
Intoxicated or under the influence of drugs.
Sexually aroused (usually of a female), especially visibly sexually aroused.
Exciting, captivating; fun.
This party is gonna be lit.
Excellent, fantastic; cool.
Those jeans are lit.
Little.
Little.
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
To colour; dye.
The body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
Written fiction of a high standard.
However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008