What is another word for lampposts?

Pronunciation: [lˈampə͡ʊsts] (IPA)

Lampposts are an essential part of street lighting system found around the world. The posts provide illumination on roads and footpaths, making it safe for pedestrians and drivers to move around even in dark areas. Depending on the location, lampposts come in various shapes, sizes, and designs. Some common synonyms for the word "lampposts" include light poles, streetlights, lanterns, lamp standards, electric columns, and light fixtures. In some instances, the terms may have specific use cases, reflecting their unique design and functionality. Regardless of the name, these structures serve the essential role of providing lighting and improving safety in public spaces.

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Usage examples for Lampposts

He always walks outside the lampposts.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
"It's much more like the lampposts on the Thames Embankment," said George, who had noticed a curly thing like a tail that went twisting up the North Pole.
"The Book of Dragons"
Edith Nesbit
As we were driving to the station I noticed all the way along, and I had noticed them ever since we had been in London, large capital H's on a white background, posted on stone walls, street corners, lampposts, and occasionally on the sidewalks.
"Abroad with the Jimmies"
Lilian Bell

Famous quotes with Lampposts

  • He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.
    Andrew Lang
  • Will we ever again be able to view a public object with civic dignity, unencumbered by commercial messages? Must city buses be fully painted as movable ads, lampposts smothered, taxis festooned, even seats in concert halls sold one by one to donors and embellished in perpetuity with their names on silver plaques?
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • The New World Order schemers are absolutely determined to have their way. They have been able to go a long way toward their goal by using subterfuge and deceit. But ultimately the transformation of a world of independent nations into the global plantation they are aiming at will involve changes so profound and so traumatic that subterfuge and deceit will not be enough to keep the serfs under control. They will need raw police power, applied KGB style. They want to begin developing that power now. They're a pretty bold and arrogant bunch of schemers, but they understand that according to the old way of looking at things -- according to our way -- they are traitors. They understand that if the general public ever gets a real inkling of what they are up to, if they ever lose their grip on the situation, they'll all end up hanging from lampposts. What they are planning is so monstrous, so evil, that the thought of being brought to account for it frightens them. They want to use every means at their disposal to make sure their plan succeeds. And, my friends, we will resort to every means at our disposal to insure that their scheme does not succeed and that they do indeed end up hanging from lampposts.
    William Luther Pierce

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