ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabian Nights' Entertainment mean? 

• ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT (noun)
  The noun ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT has 1 sense:

1. a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century

  Familiarity information: ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Arabian Nights; Arabian Nights' Entertainment; Thousand and One Nights

Instance hypernyms:

folk tale; folktale (a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk)

Domain member category:

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