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nightlamp

nightlamp noun: a lamp providing illumination at night.

Noun

nightlamp (plural nightlamps)

  1. A lamp providing illumination at night.
    • Dr. M'Alpin and he sat up until the extinction of the lights in the lower rooms round the square, and the glimmering of the nightlamps in the upper chambers, warned them that the world had retired to rest[…]1842, Mrs. Monkland, The Nabob at Home; Or, The Return to England, page 7

Forms of nightlamp

pluralnightlamps

Origin of nightlamp

From night + lamp.

Questions about nightlamp

What does nightlamp mean?
Nightlamp means a lamp providing illumination at night.
What part of speech is nightlamp?
Nightlamp is a noun.
What is the plural of nightlamp?
The plural of nightlamp is nightlamps.

Words near nightlamp in the dictionary

  1. nightingale-wren
  2. nightingales
  3. nightish
  4. nightjar
  5. nightjars
  6. nightlamp
  7. nightlamps
  8. nightless
  9. nightlessness
  10. nightlies
  11. nightlife

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