lamp

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A device that gives light, especially one you can move around a room.

   She switched on the lamp beside her bed to read.

2. 2
   noun

   A container that burns oil through a wick to give light.

   Before electricity, families lit their homes with oil lamps.

Common collocations

• hurricane lamp Noun + noun
• incandescent lamp Adjective + noun
• neon lamp Noun + noun

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”).

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