electric light

Questions about electric light

What does electric light mean?

electric light means "electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity".

What is another word for electric light?

Close synonyms include light bulb, lightbulb, bulb, incandescent lamp, electric-light bulb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electric light a common word?

electric light is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.