Meaning

3 senses
  1. (historical)A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.

    Laternenanzünder

    ліхта́рникlixtárnyk

    (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights

  2. (historical)Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight at one end.

  3. A kind of tall bicycle.

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a person employed to light streetlights:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a person employed to light streetlights:

Origin

From lamp + lighter.

From lamp + lighter.

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Forms

plural: lamplighters
Singularlamplighter
Plurallamplighters

regular

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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