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n. - A lamp supported on a lamppost.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Let me just interject some here, when Sidney used the term streetlight, it's probably a different product than the area light.
  • The simple concept of changing the outlook of something so ordinary as a streetlight is genial – the way Lovegrove did it is astonishing.
  • The sun has already gone down when a "streetlight," "headlight" and "porch light" provide all the light there is a small-town neighborhood.
  • Soon the streetlight made them look quite different.
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