Aladdin
[ə'lædɪn]
Definition
(noun.) in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie.
Typed by Carla--From WordNet
Examples
- Mr. Weston, you must really have had Aladdin's lamp. Jane Austen. Emma.
- For philosophic theory has no Aladdin's lamp to summon into immediate existence the values which it intellectually constructs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Who prates of the tame achievements of Aladdin and the Magii of Arabia? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If it had been Aladdin's palace, roc's egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was an Aladdin's palace. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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