headlamp

US/ˈhɛdˌlæmp/

nounB1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: headlamps

A headlamp is the bright forward light of a vehicle. Dip the headlamps.

The word also means a lamp worn on the head, which is what climbers and miners use. A headlamp aimed too high dazzles everybody coming the other way.

Definitions of headlamp

1nounheadlampThe bright forward light of a vehicle.B1
“One headlamp had been out since the spring.”

headlamp is a light.

Also accepted in games: headlight

Where it comes from

Head plus lamp, from the lamp at the head of a vehicle.

From head + lamp.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Vehicles & Machines

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headlamp in the wild

A headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to illuminate the road ahead.
Headlamp
Other vehicles, such as trains and aircraft, are required to have headlamps.
Headlamp
Usage includes theatrical lighting, locomotive headlamps, aircraft landing lights, and residential and commercial recessed lights ("cans" in the United States).
Parabolic aluminized reflector
Originally introduced for road vehicle headlamp service, sealed beams have since been applied elsewhere.
Parabolic aluminized reflector
Instead of having four round headlamps like the Celica, it has a rectangular headlamp design providing a more traditional halogen headlamp appearance.
Toyota Curren

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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