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lamp-post

lamp-post is the alternative spelling of lamppost.

Meaning of lamppost

Noun

lamppost (plural lampposts)

  1. The pole that holds up a light so it can illuminate a wide area, such as holds up a streetlight.
    • Visit the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in the UK, and ammonite road signs greet you at every town and city and even the lampposts on the seafront feature a familiar coiled shell.2017 June 14, Mark Carnall, “The ancient mystery of St Hilda's 'snake stones': what do ammonites really look like?”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    lightpost
  2. (humorous, informal) A tall, thin person.
    • You big skinny lamppost. And you're going grey!1985, Vladimir Kornilov, Girls to the Front, page 4
    Synonyms:
    beanpole, long ghost

Forms of lamp-post

plurallamp-posts

Questions about lamp-post

What is lamp-post the alternative spelling of?
Lamp-post is the alternative spelling of lamppost.

Words near lamp-post in the dictionary

  1. lamp-bulbs
  2. lamp-iron
  3. lamp-irons
  4. lamp-oil
  5. lamp-oils
  6. lamp-post
  7. lamp-posts
  8. lamp-shade
  9. lamp-shades
  10. lamp-wick
  11. lamp-wicks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lamp-post (page history and authors); lamppost (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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