Definition of Streetlamp

1. Noun. A lamp that illuminates a street or sidewalk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Streetlamp

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Streetlamp

streetcar
streetcar track
streetcars
streetcorner
streetcorners
streete
streeted
streetfight
streetfighter
streetfighters
streetfighting
streetfights
streetful
streetfuls
streetier
streetlamp (current term)
streetlamps
streetless
streetlife
streetlight
streetlighting
streetlights
streetlike
streetlit
streetmap
streetmaps
streets
streetscape
streetscapes
streetseller

Literary usage of Streetlamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Different Sin by Rochelle H. Schwab (1993)
"By the light of the streetlamp outside the parlor window he saw his father's figure, upright and still in the wing chair. "Dad?" Silence answered him. ..."

2. Cats in a Chowder by Fred J Schneider (2006)
"... with Harry those summer nights when the dossiers on Bernard were delivered beneath the streetlamp—fears of not being able to carry out his mission. ..."

3. Albert by Daniel Oldis (1986)
"A crepuscular light from a nearby streetlamp came in through the stained panes of the window, igniting the room in a spurious twilight. ..."

4. From a Previous Century by , umashankar (2007)
"... below There is stillness in distance On cold mornings of the wet months Winged ants build towers Like smoke plumes Atop each still burning streetlamp ..."

5. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Determined in the Supreme Court of the by Iowa Supreme Court, Benjamin Isaac Salinger, William Penn Clarke, Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles, Supreme Court, John S. Runnells, Iowa, B. W. Hight, Ezra Christian Ebersole (1890)
"... the city to pay thirty-two dollars per annum, in quarterly payments, for the use of each streetlamp, and lighting, extinguishing and cleaning the same, ..."

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