lampiste
French, noun/lɑ̃.pist/
lampiste is spelled L-A-M-P-I-S-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lampiste is a French masculine noun meaning “a person charged with maintaining oil or kerosene lamps in an establishment (such as a monastery, theater, boarding home)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrier qui fabrique ou personne qui vend des lampes à réservoir”.
What does lampiste mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicmasculinelampmaker, an artisan who makes and sells lamps
- 2
masculinea person charged with maintaining oil or kerosene lamps in an establishment (such as a monastery, theater, boarding home)
- 3
masculinea worker responsible for maintaining lamps and for issuing them from the lamp room at the start of a shift; lampman
- 4
masculinefall guy (worker who bears the blame or punishment for a superior's failure or misdeed)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ouvrier qui fabrique ou personne qui vend des lampes à réservoir. 2. Celui qui les entretient. 3. Employé des chemins de fer qui s'occupait des lampes et lanternes de la gare, de la signalisation pour les trains. 4. Ouvrier chargé d’entretenir et de distribuer les lampes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lampiste
- lampistes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lampiste?
- /lɑ̃.pist/
- \lɑ̃.pist\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lampiste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lampiste in French?
lampiste appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).