Definition of streetlight
:a light usually mounted on a pole and constituting one of a series spaced at intervals along a public street or highway — called also
streetlamp
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Turn off your porch lights, get away streetlights and find your dark, happy space.
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Outside, the crowd grabbed loose cobblestones from a construction site nearby and assaulted the theater with volleys of rocks, breaking windows, bursting water pipes and darkening streetlights.
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To really increase the chance of seeing the lights, Bob Bonadurer, director of the Milwaukee Public Museum's Daniel M. Soref Planetarium, recommends getting far away from streetlights since dark skies are a key piece of getting the best glimpse.
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There were rainbow flags on every streetlight and signs announcing the big parade was a few days hence.
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Enhanced LED streetlights in residential neighborhoods will make driving safer at night.
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In what amounts to a pre-holiday dry run, the village will display a prototype of a lighted holiday decoration that could be adorning streetlight poles along LaGrange Road by December.
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While working as an accountant and training for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Kratochvilova sometimes ran beneath streetlights at 4 in the morning before heading to her job.
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One-third of the city lamps have been upgraded to LED, and San Jose put out a broad request for ideas on how to pay for converting the remaining 40,000 streetlights.
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First Known Use of streetlight
1819
STREETLIGHT Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of streetlight for English Language Learners
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: a light on a tall pole next to a public road
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