Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pharos

Pharos , noun

[Latin, from Greek fa`ros, from Fa`ros an island in the Bay of Alexandria, where king Ptolemy Philadelphus built a famous lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.]

A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
He... built a pharos, or lighthouse. — Arbuthnot