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Definition: Aladdin's Lamp |
Aladdin's LampNoun1. (in the Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Aladdin's Lamp The source of wealth and good fortune. After Aladdin came to his wealth and was married, he suffered his lamp to hang up and get rusty. "It was impossible that a family, holding a document which gave them access to the most powerful noblemen in Scotland, should have suffered it to remain unemployed, like Aladdin's rusty lamp." - Senior. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Aladdin's Lamp |
| Specialty definitions using "Aladdin's lamp": Aladdin's Ring ♦ Nursery Tales. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Aladdin's Lamp (1947) | |
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Lord Byron | Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. |
| Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Aladdin's lamp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | alaaddin'in lambası. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-a-a-d-d-i-l-l-m-n-p-s" | |
-5 letters: landslid, landslip, mandalas, manillas, midlands, paladins, palladia. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 61 64 64 69 6E 27 73 4C 61 6D 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01100001 01100100 01100100 01101001 01101110 00100111 01110011 00100000 01001100 01100001 01101101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l a d d i n ' s   L a m p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0061 0064 0064 0069 006E 0027 0073 004C 0061 006D 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35786770707580985246677982 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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