Meanings
nounstreet light (countable and uncountable, plural street lights)
plural street lights
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of streetlight.
From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48
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