lamp

Meanings

Plural: lamps

Noun

an artificial source of visible illumination
a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs
A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

Verb

To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”).

Synonyms

jacklight, spotlight

Scrabble Score: 8

lamp is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
lamp is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lamp is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

lamp is a valid Words With Friends word