nightlamp

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noun

A lamp providing illumination at night.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounnightlamp (plural nightlamps)

plural nightlamps

  1. A lamp providing illumination at night.

    Dr. M'Alpin and he sat up until the extinction of the lights in the lower rooms round the square, and the glimmering of the nightlamps in the upper chambers, warned them that the world had retired to rest[…]

    1842, Mrs. Monkland, The Nabob at Home; Or, The Return to England, page 7

Origin

From night + lamp.

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APA

nightlamp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightlamp

MLA

“nightlamp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightlamp. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nightlamp,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightlamp.

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