What is the meaning of lit?

noun

• The humanistic study of a body of literature.
  • usage: "he took a course in Russian lit"
  • synonyms: literature

verb

• Make lighter or brighter.
  • usage: "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
  • synonyms: light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate
• Begin to smoke.
  • usage: "After the meal, some of the diners lit up"
  • synonyms: light up, fire up, light
• To come to rest, settle.
  • usage: "Misfortune lighted upon him"
  • synonyms: alight, light, perch
• Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat.
  • usage: "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
  • synonyms: ignite, light
• Fall to somebody by assignment or lot.
  • usage: "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
  • synonyms: fall, light
• Alight from (a horse.
  • synonyms: unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down

adjective

• Provided with artificial light.
  • usage: "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"
  • synonyms: illuminated, lighted, well-lighted
• Set afire or burning.
  • usage: "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker"
  • synonyms: lighted