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English
Etymology
From lamp + post.
Pronunciation
Noun
lamppost (plural lampposts)
- The pole that holds up a light so it can illuminate a wide area, such as holds up a streetlight.
- Synonym: lightpost
2023 January 25, Tom Allett, “Sleaford restored to its 'true' identity”, in RAIL, number 975, page 51:"What is really good is they haven't just painted the station building, they've done all the lampposts to match as well, right down to the end of the platform.
- (informal, humorous) A tall, thin person.
- Synonyms: beanpole, long ghost
1985, Vladimir Kornilov, Girls to the Front, page 4:You big skinny lamppost. And you're going grey!
Translations
pole that holds up a light
- Arabic: عَمُود مِصْبَاح m (ʕamūd miṣbāḥ), عَمُود إِنَارَة m (ʕamūd ʔināra)
- Moroccan Arabic: ركيزة (rkīza)
- Armenian: լապտերասյուն (hy) (lapterasyun)
- Belarusian: ліхта́рны слуп m (lixtárny slup)
- Bulgarian: лампио́н m (lampión)
- Catalan: farola f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 燈柱/灯柱 (zh) (dēngzhù), 街燈柱/街灯柱 (jiēdēng zhù)
- Czech: kandelábr (cs) m, sloup pouličního osvětlení m
- Danish: lygtepæl c, gadelygte (da) c
- Dutch: lantaarnpaal (nl) m
- Esperanto: stratlanterno
- Estonian: tänavapost
- Finnish: lyhtypylväs (fi)
- French: réverbère (fr) m, lampadaire (fr) m
- Georgian: საფანრე ბოძი (sapanre boʒi)
- German: Laternenpfahl (de) m
- Greek: φανοστάτης (el) m (fanostátis)
- Hungarian: lámpaoszlop (hu)
- Irish: cuaille lampa m, cuaille solais m
- Italian: lampione (it) m
- Japanese: 街灯 (ja) (がいとう, gaitō)
- Korean: 가로등(街路燈) (ko) (garodeung)
- Latvian: apgaismes stabs m
- Lithuanian: žibinto stulpas m
- Maori: pou rama
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lyktestolpe m
- Polish: słup latarni m
- Portuguese: poste de luz m, combustor m
- Romanian: stâlp de felinar m
- Russian: фона́рь (ru) m (fonárʹ), фона́рный столб m (fonárnyj stolb)
- Slovak: kandeláber m, stĺp pouličného osvetlenia m
- Slovene: kandelaber m
- Spanish: farola (es) f, farol (es) m, poste de luz m, poste lumínico m
- Swedish: lyktstolpe (sv) c
- Thai: เสาโคม (sǎo-koom)
- Ukrainian: ліхта́р m (lixtár), ліхта́рний стовп m (lixtárnyj stovp)
- Vietnamese: cột đèn
- Welsh: polyn lamp m
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References
- (tall person): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary (as "lamp-post")
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