LANTERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lantern mean? 

• LANTERN (noun)
  The noun LANTERN has 1 sense:

1. light in a transparent protective case

  Familiarity information: LANTERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANTERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Light in a transparent protective case

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lantern" is a kind of...):

lamp (an artificial source of visible illumination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lantern"):

Chinese lantern (a collapsible paper lantern in bright colors; used for decorative purposes)

bull's-eye; dark lantern (a lantern with a single opening and a sliding panel that can be closed to conceal the light)

jack-o'-lantern (lantern carved from a pumpkin)

 Context examples 

Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern.

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

Lestrade had produced two candles, and the policemen had uncovered their lanterns.

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

In the rays of the lantern I could see his perplexed face peering down.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The maid carried a lantern with her, as it was very dark and the path ran across the open moor.

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

The bright yellow glare from a stable lantern cut a ring suddenly from the darkness, and an ostler came lounging out of the yard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I struck a match and lit the detective’s lantern.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His companions came up to assist him, and by the light of their lantern they found that he had fallen on the body of a man, who was to all appearance dead.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The man went out with a lantern.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And so it is that I have spent nearly the whole of this our first night upon the plateau writing up our experiences by the light of a single candle-lantern.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So—here he shut the dark slide of his lantern—now to the outside.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)