English
Etymology
From street + light.
Pronunciation
Noun
streetlight (countable and uncountable, plural streetlights)
- (countable) Any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area, usually urban.
- Synonyms: lightpole, street lamp
At night the streetlights of Paris are beautiful to see.
- (uncountable) The light produced by these lights.
1995, “Gangsta's Paradise”, performed by Coolio:Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like / On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight
Translations
a lamp set along a street
- Afrikaans: straatlig
- Arabic: مِصْبَاح الشَّارِع m (miṣbāḥ aš-šāriʕ)
- Gulf Arabic: شبة f (šabba)
- Azerbaijani: küçə işığı
- Belarusian: ву́лічны ліхта́р m (vúličny lixtár), ву́лічнае асвятле́нне n (vúličnaje asvjatljénnje)
- Bulgarian: у́лична ла́мпа f (úlična lámpa), у́лично осветле́ние n (úlično osvetlénie), лампио́н m (lampión)
- Catalan: fanal (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 街燈 / 街灯 (gaai1 dang1), 路燈 / 路灯 (lou6 dang1)
- Hakka: 路燈 / 路灯 (lu-tên)
- Hokkien: 路燈 / 路灯 (zh-min-nan) (lō͘-teng)
- Mandarin: 路燈 / 路灯 (zh) (lùdēng), 街燈 / 街灯 (zh) (jiēdēng)
- Czech: veřejné osvětlení n, pouliční lampa f
- Danish: gadelygte (da) c
- Dutch: straatverlichting (nl) f, straatlicht n
- Esperanto: stratlanterno
- Estonian: tänavalamp
- Finnish: katuvalo (fi), katuvalolamppu (fi), katulamppu
- French: réverbère (fr) m, lampadaire (fr) m
- Gagauz: sokak feneri
- German: Straßenbeleuchtung (de) f, Straßenlaterne (de) f, Straßenlampe (de) f
- Hungarian: utcalámpa (hu)
- Indonesian: lampu jalan
- Ingrian: fonari
- Irish: lampa sráide m
- Italian: lampione (it) m
- Japanese: 街灯 (ja) (がいとう, gaitō)
- Kazakh: көше шамдары (köşe şamdary)
- Korean: 가로등(街路燈) (ko) (garodeung)
- Kyrgyz: көчө жарыгы (köcö jarıgı)
- Macedonian: у́лична све́тилка f (úlična svétilka)
- Navajo: tłʼóóʼgóó dadiltłiʼígíí
- Norman: veue d'rue f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gatelykt m or f, gatebelysning m or f, gatelys n
- Nynorsk: gatelykt f
- Ojibwe: waazakonenjiganaatig
- Ottoman Turkish: فنار (fenar, fener)
- Persian: چراغ خیابان (čerâġ-e xiyâbân)
- Polish: latarnia (pl) f
- Portuguese: iluminação pública f, luz da rua f, luz de rua f
- Romanian: felinar (ro) n
- Russian: у́личное освеще́ние (ru) n (úličnoje osveščénije), у́личный фона́рь m (úličnyj fonárʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: verejné osvetlenie n
- Slovene: ulična svetilka f
- Spanish: alumbrado público m, farol (es) m, farola (es) f, poste lumínico m
- Swedish: gatlykta (sv) c
- Thai: เสาไฟ
- Turkish: sokak lambası
- Ukrainian: ву́личне осві́тлення n (vúlyčne osvítlennja), ву́личний ліхта́р m (vúlyčnyj lixtár)
- Vietnamese: đèn đường
- Welsh: golau stryd m, lamp stryd f
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the light produced by these lights