light bulb

Questions about light bulb

What does light bulb mean?

light bulb 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 light bulb?

Close synonyms include lightbulb, bulb, incandescent lamp, electric light, 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 light bulb a common word?

light bulb is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.