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light bulbs

light bulbs is the plural of light bulb.

Meaning of light bulb

Noun

light bulb (plural light bulbs)

  1. An evacuated glass bulb containing a metal filament which is heated by electrical resistance to produce light.
    • Atticus did something that interested us: he came into the livingroom carrying a long electrical extension cord. There was a light bulb on the end.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 15, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
  2. (broadly) An article that resembles such a bulb and converts electricity to light by any process.
    • a fluorescent light bulb
  3. (figuratively) Used in reference to the sudden arrival of a realization, an inspiration, an idea, or the like.
    • a light-bulb moment

Questions about light bulbs

What is light bulbs the plural of?
Light bulbs is the plural of light bulb.

Words near light bulbs in the dictionary

  1. light bucket
  2. light buckets
  3. light bulb
  4. light bulb joke
  5. light bulb jokes
  6. light bulbs
  7. light buoy
  8. light buoys
  9. light carrier
  10. light carriers
  11. light cavalries

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