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FLYING CARPET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flying carpet mean? 

FLYING CARPET (noun)
  The noun FLYING CARPET has 1 sense:

1. (Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to goplay

  Familiarity information: FLYING CARPET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLYING CARPET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to go

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("flying carpet" is a kind of...):

carpet; carpeting; rug (floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile))

Domain category:

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

Domain region:

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)


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