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ALI BABA

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Overview

ALI BABA (noun)
  The noun ALI BABA has 1 sense:

1. the fictional woodcutter who discovered that 'open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainmentplay

  Familiarity information: ALI BABA used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ALI BABA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The fictional woodcutter who discovered that 'open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

woodcutter (cuts down trees and chops wood as a job)


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