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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lamppost1

First recorded in 1780–90; lamp + post 1
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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