1a light placed at the side of something:a designer village with sidelights along the pathways
British a small light on either side of the front of a motor vehicle, used in poor light when full headlights are not required.
(sidelights) a ship’s navigation lights.
[mass noun] natural light coming from the side:through the window blazed the cold light of winter morning; sidelight, the most harsh
2a narrow window or pane of glass set alongside a door or larger window:we added French doors with sidelights and a fanlight overhead
3a piece of incidental information that helps to clarify or enliven a subject:one has to wade through pages of extraneous material in order to discover these sidelights on the management of an estate
sidelight in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of sidelight in the US English dictionary
