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streetlight
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raised source of light on the edge of a road or walkway
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A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution became ubiquitous in developed countries in the 20th century, lights for urban streets followed, or sometimes led.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “streetlight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.