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streetlight
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Word definitions for streetlight in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street [syn: street lamp ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) Any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area, usually urban. 2 (context uncountable English) The light produced by these lights.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A streetlight beside an elementary school shed just enough light to let me make sense out of the map. ▪ It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference. ▪ She could hear the adjacent ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A street light is a raised source of light used to illuminate streets and their surrounding area. Streetlight or Streetlights may also refer to: Streetlight (song) , a song by The Getaway Plan Streetlight (film) , a Malayalam film Street Light (painting) ...
Usage examples of streetlight.
Beyond the glow of the streetlights, in the darkened city, the ghosts of Adirondack seemed to be gathering.
I arrived at the address on Grove Street, just a few blocks from the station, Adler stood out front beneath the streetlight, listening to an elderly woman with her hair in rollers, who wore a shapeless shift of floral polyester and rubber thong sandals in Day-Glo pink.
He squinted against the backblast but held his position respectfully until the Rolls slid into the thick, rolling clouds over San Francisco, clouds that now reflected the bloody glow of the streetlights from the city below.
Some of the faces she could recognize in the glow from the Riverside Drive streetlights: Cyril and Aleksander, the leaders of the Greens, who had talked long and earnestly with her before this decision had been made.
Condensation had beaded on the fuel tank of the Kawasaki, so that it looked like some sort of frosted confection in the streetlight.
By the time her gaze had returned to the Leblanc house, a male figure was walking out the front door, his silhouette framed in the soft glow of streetlights.
On Friday evening the early thunderstorm turned into a steady misty rain that lasted well into dark, making halos around the commercial lights of Meadows Center and around the home lights of the Settlements and the corner streetlights.
They swooped in front of the condominium and settled atop one of the tall Washingtonia palms that lined the road, evenly spaced like streetlights.
Janet could see the Virginia Tech campus stretching before her, a small city of crenellated academic buildings, barracks like dorms, and streetlights.
The streetlights washed the empty sidewalks with the chilliest of illumination.
The rooftops of the Temple District stretched out in all directions, a jagged landscape slashed with fissures through which the streetlights far below shone.
The blue radiance from the overhead streetlights barely penetrated the gloom, serving more to make the hallucinated night a tangible sensation upon the skin.
Maybe it had been a bit of a hot spot during the Soviet era, but from what I could see of it in my headlights and the occasional functioning streetlight, it was now very tired and flaky, the Estonian equivalent of those Victorian places in Britain that reached their expiration date in the seventies when everyone started getting on planes to Spain.
The white guy jabbed a knife at her, the blade glinting ghostly pale in the rain-filtered streetlight.
They poked her with their nightsticks, like they did the drunks, and then one of them saw her blood on it, shining in the streetlights.