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THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century
Synonyms:
Arabian Nights; Arabian Nights' Entertainment; Thousand and One Nights
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)