light bulb


noun
  1. an electric light.

Origin of light bulb

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Words Nearby light bulb

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How to use light bulb in a sentence

  • Art without inspiration is our electric light bulb disconnected from the main current.

    Spirit and Music | H. Ernest Hunt
  • The vast misty cloud was plainly visible, glowing with a milky light like some vast frosted light bulb.

    Islands of Space | John W Campbell
  • There was only one small light bulb hanging about forty feet up on the ceiling.

  • The floor was littered with papers, and a single electric light bulb relieved the gloom of the unsavory place.

    The Oakdale Affair | Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • They stopped under a broken sign of black letters on greyish glass, within which one feeble electric light bulb made a red glow.

    One Man's Initiation--1917 | John Dos Passos

British Dictionary definitions for light bulb

light bulb

noun
  1. a glass bulb containing a gas, such as argon or nitrogen, at low pressure and enclosing a thin metal filament that emits light when an electric current is passed through it: Sometimes shortened to: bulb

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