lamppost
lamppost
Definition
lamp·post (lam′pōst′)
noun
a post supporting a street lamp
lamppost
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- hit: None of us were wearing seat belts and my good friend died as she hit the lamppost full on.
- use: Silly, I should have used the lampposts, but fell back on that old standby, the lock ladder.
- round: Apart from being easier to wrap round a lamppost, fast cars are more likely to be stolen.
Preposition: in
- middle: Reality Checkpoint The ornate lamppost in the middle of Parker's Piece.
- center: The walk starts from Reality Checkpoint ( 1 ), a solitary lamppost in the center of the Parker's Piece park.
Adjective modifier
- concrete: A solitary seagull sits on top of a concrete lamppost, the only type of structure still standing here.
- old: The original site of the old lamppost had been screened by the residents with a tree being planted.
- new: The current position of the new lamppost which was much taller was causing light intrusion in the upper story of the house.
- next: It was the daily paranoia of wondering if the bicycle chained to the next lamppost was going to blow your legs off.
- high: They'll hang Blair from the highest lamppost in London.
Preposition: on
- corner: He was literally leaning on a lamppost on the corner of the street, just like a little man.
Noun used with modifier
- bracket: There had also been alterations on the platform during the same period: concrete bracket lampposts supporting electric lighting had replaced gas lamps.
- iron: Here, as so often elsewhere, good surviving examples of old cast iron lampposts at present carry much newer electric light fittings.
- metal: Tall metal lampposts appeared centrally on the island and the vacant land on the ''up ' ' side became even more overgrown.
lamppost Quotes
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. 380
I'm leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street In case a certain little lady comes by.
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