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electric lights

electric lights is the plural of electric light.

Meaning of electric light

Noun

electric light (countable and uncountable, plural electric lights)

  1. Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination.
    • As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83
  2. A device producing such light: an electric lightbulb or the lamp or light fixture that uses it.
    • The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […].1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893

Questions about electric lights

What is electric lights the plural of?
Electric lights is the plural of electric light.

Words near electric lights in the dictionary

  1. electric knife
  2. electric knives
  3. electric light
  4. electric light bug
  5. electric light bugs
  6. electric lights
  7. electric lock pick
  8. electric lock picks
  9. electric locomotive
  10. electric locomotives
  11. electric main

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