street lamp

See also: streetlamp and street-lamp

English

Alternative forms

• street-lamp, streetlamp

Etymology

From street +‎ lamp.

Noun

street lamp (plural street lamps)

1. Synonym of streetlight (“any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area”).
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 242:

     ‘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.’

Translations

streetlight — see streetlight

References

• “street lamp, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• templaters