ARABIAN NIGHTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabian Nights mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABIAN NIGHTS (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)

 Context examples 

We'll go over 'em one after another. We'll make some regular Arabian Nights of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This diary seems horribly like the beginning of the Arabian Nights, for everything has to break off at cockcrow—or like the ghost of Hamlet's father.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Having laid out all these luxuries, my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid for and were ordered to this address.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Glancing at the bookcases, I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick's British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver's Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time,—they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii,—and did me no harm; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me; I knew nothing of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)