streetlight

See also: street-light and street light

English

Alternative forms

• street light, street-light

Etymology

From street +‎ light.

Noun

streetlight (countable and uncountable, plural streetlights)

1. (countable) Any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area, usually urban.

   Synonym: street lamp

   At night the streetlights of Paris are beautiful to see.

2. (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)
• 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: gatebelysning m or f, gatelys n

• Ojibwe: waazakonenjiganaatig
• Persian: چراغ خیابان (čerâğ-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

the light produced by these lights

• Dutch: straatlicht n
• Finnish: katuvalo (fi)
• Portuguese: luz da rua f, luz de rua f
• Swedish: gatljus n, gatubelysning (sv) c