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street-light

street-light is the alternative spelling of streetlight.

Meaning of streetlight

Noun

streetlight (countable and uncountable, plural streetlights)

  1. (countable) Any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area, usually urban.
    • At night the streetlights of Paris are beautiful to see.
  2. (uncountable) The light produced by these lights.
    • Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like / On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight1995, “Gangsta's Paradise”, performed by Coolio

Forms of street-light

pluralstreet-lights

Questions about street-light

What is street-light the alternative spelling of?
Street-light is the alternative spelling of streetlight.

Words near street-light in the dictionary

  1. street-keeper
  2. street-keepers
  3. street-lamp
  4. street-lamps
  5. street-legal
  6. street-light
  7. street-lights
  8. street-shitter
  9. street-shitters
  10. street-smart
  11. street-smarter

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