flash lamp

1. 1.

   a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

   Synonymsflashphotoflashflashgunflashbulbflash bulb

   Broaderlampphotographic equipment

   Part offlash camera

Questions about flash lamp

What does flash lamp mean?

flash lamp means "a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph".

What is another word for flash lamp?

Close synonyms include flash, photoflash, flashgun, flashbulb, flash 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 flash lamp a common word?

flash lamp 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.