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street-lamp

street-lamp is the alternative form of street lamp.

Meaning of street lamp

Noun

street lamp (plural street lamps)

  1. Synonym of streetlight (“any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area”).
    • ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 242
    Synonyms:
    streetlight

Forms of street-lamp

pluralstreet-lamps

Origin of street-lamp

From street + lamp.

Questions about street-lamp

What is street-lamp the alternative form of?
Street-lamp is the alternative form of street lamp.

Words near street-lamp in the dictionary

  1. street-arabs
  2. street-cleaner
  3. street-cleaners
  4. street-keeper
  5. street-keepers
  6. street-lamp
  7. street-lamps
  8. street-legal
  9. street-light
  10. street-lights
  11. street-shitter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: street-lamp (page history and authors); street lamp (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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