ALADDIN

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

1. in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie

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

• ALADDIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie

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))

 Context examples 

If it had been Aladdin's palace, roc's egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Oh! Mr. Weston, you must really have had Aladdin's lamp.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)