streetlight

noun

street·​light ˈstrēt-ˌlīt 

: a light usually mounted on a pole and constituting one of a series spaced at intervals along a public street or highway

called also streetlamp

Examples of streetlight in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Those back-in-my-day clichés about growing up in midcentury America — walking a mile to school, working a paper route, playing outside until the streetlights clicked on — paint a fairly accurate picture of a kind of American childhood that’s all but vanished. —Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026

The streetlight repair backlog grew by 153 in February as crews fixed 342 streetlights while 495 new service requests came in. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026

Spending millions so that streetlights don’t attract cows? —National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026

Ouellet was struck in an area of road that is poorly lit, with several streetlights reported to be not functioning, the police said. —Jack Perry, The Providence Journal, 25 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for streetlight

• affright
• airtight
• albite
• alight
• alright
• aplite
• aright
• bainite
• birthright
• bobwhite
• bornite
• bullfight

Kids Definition

streetlight

noun

street·​light -ˌlīt 

: a light usually on a pole that is one of a series spaced along a public road