ALADDIN'S LAMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aladdin's lamp mean? 

• ALADDIN'S LAMP (noun)
  The noun ALADDIN'S LAMP has 1 sense:

1. (Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie

  Familiarity information: ALADDIN'S LAMP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALADDIN'S LAMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Aladdin's lamp" is a kind of...):

lamp (an artificial source of visible illumination)

Domain category:

Arabian Nights; Arabian Nights' Entertainment; Thousand and One Nights (a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century)

 Context examples 

Oh! Mr. Weston, you must really have had Aladdin's lamp.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)