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