"reading-lamp" meaning in All languages combined

See reading-lamp on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: reading-lamps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} reading-lamp (plural reading-lamps)
  1. A small indoor lamp designed to be used for reading at night. Synonyms: reading light
    Sense id: en-reading-lamp-en-noun-YAI-mDrc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reading-lamps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "reading-lamp (plural reading-lamps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
          "text": "\"I value my electric reading-lamp, and that is a product of science.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 February, “New Third Class Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:",
          "text": "A bed reading lamp is provided for each passenger; it is so arranged that, in all switching conditions, a blue night light will prevent the berth being placed in complete darkness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963 March, “The Clacton express electric multiple-units enter service”, in Modern Railways, page 173:",
          "text": "[...] and the neat reading lamps on the underside of the luggage racks, under passenger control, are an attractive feature of the first class compartments.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small indoor lamp designed to be used for reading at night."
      ],
      "id": "en-reading-lamp-en-noun-YAI-mDrc",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "reading light"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "reading-lamp"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reading-lamps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "reading-lamp (plural reading-lamps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
          "text": "\"I value my electric reading-lamp, and that is a product of science.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 February, “New Third Class Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:",
          "text": "A bed reading lamp is provided for each passenger; it is so arranged that, in all switching conditions, a blue night light will prevent the berth being placed in complete darkness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963 March, “The Clacton express electric multiple-units enter service”, in Modern Railways, page 173:",
          "text": "[...] and the neat reading lamps on the underside of the luggage racks, under passenger control, are an attractive feature of the first class compartments.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small indoor lamp designed to be used for reading at night."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "reading light"
    }
  ],
  "word": "reading-lamp"
}

Download raw JSONL data for reading-lamp meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.