stoplight

[stop-lahyt]

noun

1. traffic light.

stoplight

/ ˈstɒpˌlaɪt /

noun

1. a red light on a traffic signal indicating that vehicles or pedestrians coming towards it should stop

2. another word for brake light

Word History and Origins

Origin of stoplight¹

First recorded in 1925–30; stop + light ¹

Example Sentences

It also should make pedestrian crossing safer and reduce time spent at stoplights.

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Homeless people routinely direct traffic when the stoplights don’t work.

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She instructs families to narrate their actions, such as by sharing with their child when they slow down at a stoplight on the way back from school.

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Not long ago, my wife and I were at a stoplight and a new Corvette pulled up.

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At a stoplight, my gaze will magnetically travel north to the Santa Monica Mountains blanketed in a golden charred brown, and I travel back to hiking those trails, surrounded by sage, lavender and flitting bluebirds.

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