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1. (n.) lamp
any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas.
2. lamp
a container for burning an inflammable liquid, as oil, at a wick for illumination.
3. lamp
a source of intellectual or spiritual light:
the lamp of learning.
4. lamp
any of various devices furnishing heat, ultraviolet, or other radiation:
an infrared lamp.
5. lamp
a celestial body that gives off light.
6. lamp
Slang. the eyes.
Etymology: (1150–1200; ME lampe < OF < LL lampada, for L lampas, s. lampad- < Gk lampás lamp )
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) lamp
an artificial source of visible illumination
2. (noun) lamp
a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs
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1. (noun) lamp
a small electric light
a lamp to read by
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) lamp
a thin plate or lamina
2. (noun) lamp
a light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light
3. (noun) lamp
figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp
4. (noun) lamp
a device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent
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Sense: a (glass-covered) light
an oil-lamp; a table lamp; a street-lamp.
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 Afrikaans: lamp |
 Arabic: مِصْباح |
 Bulgarian: лампа |
 Brazilian: lâmpada |
 Czech: lampa |
 German: die Lampe |
 Danish: lampe; -lampe |
 Greek: λάμπα, γλόμπος |
 Spanish: lámpara |
 Estonian: lamp |
 Farsi: چراغ |
 Finnish: lamppu |
 French: lampe |
 Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה |
 Hindi: चिराग, दीपक, बत्ती |
 Croatian: svjetiljka |
 Hungarian: lámpa |
 Indonesian: lampu |
 Icelandic: lampi; götuljós |
 Italian: lampada; lampione |
 Japanese: ランプ |
 Korean: 등잔, 램프 |
 Lithuanian: lempa,žibintas |
 Latvian: lampa |
 Malay: lampu |
 Dutch: lamp |
 Norwegian: lampe, lykt |
 Polish: lampa |
 Persian: چراغ |
 Pashto: څراغ |
 Portuguese: candeeiro |
 Romanian: lampă, felinar |
 Russian: лампа; фонарь |
 Slovak: lampa |
 Slovenian: svetilka |
 Serbian: lampa |
 Swedish: lampa, lykta |
 Thai: โคมไฟ |
 Turkish: lâmba |
 Taiwanese: 燈 |
 Ukrainian: лампа, ліхтар |
 Urdu: روشنی دینے والا آلہ، چراغ |
 Vietnamese: bóng đèn |
 Chinese: 灯 |
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