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Street Lamp

Definition: Street Lamp

Street Lamp

Noun

1. A lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Street Lamp

Synonym: streetlight (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Street Lamp

DomainUsage

Lyrics

'Neath the halo of a street lamp, (The Sound Of Silence; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Street Lamp

DomainTitle

Music

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Photo Album: Street Lamp

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Street lamp on Mall. Lamp along street. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Use in Literature: Street Lamp

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The street lamp of the boulevards shed a dim light through this poor interior.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Street Lamp

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

street lamp

65
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Modern Translation: Street Lamp

Language Translations for "street lamp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fener (beacon, headlight, lamp, lantern, leading light, light, light house). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مصباح الشارع. (various references)

   

Danish

  

gadelygte. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

straatlataarn. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

katulamppu. (various references)

   

French

  

réverbère (standard). (various references)

   

German

  

Strassenlaterne, straßenleuchte, straßenlaterne. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φανοστάτης. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utcalámpa (street light). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lampione (lamp, lantern). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sollys straiddey, londeyr straiddey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eetstray amplay

   

Portuguese

  

poste de luz da rua, candeeiro de iluminação pública. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уличный фонарь (street-lamp, streetlight). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gatlykta (streetlight). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Street Lamp

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: streetlamp.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-p-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: attempers, palmettes, saltpeter, streamlet, templates.

-2 letters: alertest, attemper, empalers, maltster, martlets, palettes, palmette, partlets, peartest, petrales, platters, pleaters, prattles, prelates, pretaste, replates, resample, splatter, sprattle, teamster, temperas, templars, template, templets, tempters, tramples.

-3 letters: amperes, amplest, armlets, elaters, empaler, empales, estreat, lampers, lamster, leapers, letters, martlet, matters, melters, metates, metepas, mettles, palette, palmers, palters.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-p-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: streetlamps.

 

+3 letters: temporalities.

 

+4 letters: hyperstimulate, presentimental, superstimulate.

 

+5 letters: experimentalist, hyperstimulated, hyperstimulates, superstimulated, superstimulates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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