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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
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)
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