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street lamp

street lamp noun: synonym of streetlight (“any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area”).

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

Synonyms of street lamp

Forms of street lamp

pluralstreet lamps
alternative formstreet-lamp
alternative formstreetlamp

Origin of street lamp

From street + lamp.

Questions about street lamp

What does street lamp mean?
Street lamp means synonym of streetlight (“any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area”).
What part of speech is street lamp?
Street lamp is a noun.
What is the plural of street lamp?
The plural of street lamp is street lamps.

Words near street lamp in the dictionary

  1. street girls
  2. street harassment
  3. street hockey
  4. street kid
  5. street kids
  6. street lamp
  7. street lamps
  8. Street Lane
  9. street level
  10. street libraries
  11. street library

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