lamppost

[ lamp-pohst ]

/ ˈlæmpˌpoʊst /

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noun

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

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Origin of lamppost

First recorded in 1780–90; lamp + post¹

Words nearby lamppost

lampion, lamplight, lamplighter, lamp oil, lampoon, lamppost, lamprey, lamprophony, lamprophyre, lampshade, lamp shell

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How to use lamppost in a sentence

You started walking along the road, getting closer to the lamppost, but your doppelgänger remained hidden.
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The entire time, your doppelgänger remained obscured by the lamppost.
Can You Hit These Riddles Out Of The Park?|Zach Wissner-Gross|October 15, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
You start walking along the road, getting closer to the lamppost, but your doppelganger remains hidden.
Can You Evade Your Evil Twin?|Zach Wissner-Gross|October 8, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Run fast from lamppost to lamppost along your route, easing off for an equal distance before ramping up again.
The Simplified Guide to Speedwork|Outside Editors|March 10, 2021|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.
Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse|Natalie Wolchover|December 17, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Chasen did not surrender her purse, jewelry, money, or car, but lurched leftward onto Whittier, where she crashed into a lamppost.
Chasen Murderer's Secret Past|A. L. Bardach|December 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
A few steps away some colored men were assembled about a lamppost, their laughter coming explosively, in repeated peals.
A Top-Floor Idyl|George van Schaick
He climbs a lamppost, and sets to work taking notes as fast as his pencil can fly.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873.|Various
Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.
The Devil's Dictionary|Ambrose Bierce
Well, as I strolled along I saw there was something going on round this lamppost.
The Stark Munro Letters|J. Stark Munro
I leaned against a lamppost, my mind gravel-rashed, and waited for something that could be understood.
Waiting for Daylight|Henry Major Tomlinson

British Dictionary definitions for lamppost

lamppost

/ (ˈlæmpˌpəʊst) /

noun

a post supporting a lamp, esp in a street

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