lamppost

[ lamp-pohst ]

noun

1. a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.

lamppost

/ ˈlæmpˌpəʊst /

noun

1. a post supporting a lamp, esp in a street

Word History and Origins

Origin of lamppost¹

First recorded in 1780–90; lamp + post ¹

Example Sentences

You started walking along the road, getting closer to the lamppost, but your doppelgänger remained hidden.

From FiveThirtyEight

The entire time, your doppelgänger remained obscured by the lamppost.

From FiveThirtyEight

You start walking along the road, getting closer to the lamppost, but your doppelganger remains hidden.

From FiveThirtyEight

Run fast from lamppost to lamppost along your route, easing off for an equal distance before ramping up again.

From Outside Online

If Earth moved, as Copernicus held, then they expected to see nearby stars shifting in the sky as it did so, just as a lamppost appears to shift relative to the background hills as you cross the street.

From Quanta Magazine

Chasen did not surrender her purse, jewelry, money, or car, but lurched leftward onto Whittier, where she crashed into a lamppost.

From The Daily Beast

A few steps away some colored men were assembled about a lamppost, their laughter coming explosively, in repeated peals.

From Project Gutenberg

He climbs a lamppost, and sets to work taking notes as fast as his pencil can fly.

From Project Gutenberg

Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.

From Project Gutenberg

Well, as I strolled along I saw there was something going on round this lamppost.

From Project Gutenberg

I leaned against a lamppost, my mind gravel-rashed, and waited for something that could be understood.

From Project Gutenberg