Meaning

1 senses
  1. A kind of lamp, typically used more for decoration than illumination, in which the gentle flow of randomly-shaped clumps of wax purportedly suggests the flowing of lava.

    Lavalampe

    ла́вовая ла́мпаlávovaja lámpa, лава-ла́мпаlava-lámpa

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Tom stared at the lava lamp for hours.

    deTom starrte stundenlang die Lavalampe an.

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  2. Lava lamps are awesome.

    deLavalampen sind toll.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
lamp used for decoration:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
lamp used for decoration:

Origin

A trademarked name registered by Mathmos in 1963 for the item.

A trademarked name registered by Mathmos in 1963 for the item.

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Forms

plural: lava lamps
Singularlava lamp
Plurallava lamps

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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