kerosene lamp

Questions about kerosene lamp

What does kerosene lamp mean?

kerosene lamp means "a lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light".

What is another word for kerosene lamp?

Close synonyms include oil lamp, kerosine lamp. 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 kerosene lamp a common word?

kerosene 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kerosene lamp come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.