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streetlamp

streetlamp 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 streetlamp

pluralstreetlamps

Questions about streetlamp

What is streetlamp the alternative form of?
Streetlamp is the alternative form of street lamp.

Words near streetlamp in the dictionary

  1. streeties
  2. streeting
  3. Streetings
  4. streetkeeper
  5. streetkeepers
  6. streetlamp
  7. streetlamps
  8. streetless
  9. streetlessness
  10. streetlet
  11. streetlets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: streetlamp (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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