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lampost

lampost 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 lampost

plurallamposts

Questions about lampost

What is lampost the alternative spelling of?
Lampost is the alternative spelling of lamppost.

Words near lampost in the dictionary

  1. lampoonry
  2. lampoons
  3. Lamport
  4. Lamport timestamp
  5. Lamport timestamps
  6. lampost
  7. lamposts
  8. LAMPP
  9. lamppost
  10. lampposts
  11. lamprais

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lampost (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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