electric light

English

Noun

electric light (countable and uncountable, plural electric lights)

1. Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:

     As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.

2. A device producing such light.
   • 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:

     The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […] .

Derived terms

• electric light bug

References

• “electric light”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.