THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thousand and One Nights mean? 

• THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (noun)
  The noun THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THOUSAND AND ONE 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)