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STREET LAMP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does street lamp mean?
• STREET LAMP (noun)
The noun STREET LAMP has 1 sense:
1. a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street
Familiarity information: STREET LAMP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
street lamp; streetlight
Hypernyms ("street lamp" is a kind of...):
lamp (an artificial source of visible illumination)
Meronyms (parts of "street lamp"):
lamppost (a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight))
Context examples
In the light of a street lamp we read “Laburnum Villa” upon the gate-post of one of them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes pointed to the street lamp above our heads.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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