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Definition: Lantern |
LanternNoun1. Light in a transparent protective case. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lantern" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a lantern going before you in the darkness, signifies unexpected affluence. If the lantern is suddenly lost to view, then your success will take an unfavorable turn. To carry a lantern in your dreams, denotes that your benevolence will win you many friends. If it goes out, you fail to gain the prominence you wish. If you stumble and break it, you will seek to aid others, and in so doing lose your own station, or be disappointed in some undertaking. To clean a lantern, signifies great possibilities are open to you. To lose a lantern, means business depression, and disquiet in the home. If you buy a lantern, it signifies fortunate deals. For a young woman to dream that she lights her lover's lantern, foretells for her a worthy man, and a comfortable home. If she blows it out, by her own imprudence she will lose a chance of getting married. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | An apparatus which distributes, filters or transforms the light given by a lamp or lamps and which includes all the items necessary for fixing and protecting these lamps and for connecting them to the supply circuit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Lantern In Christian art, the attribute of St. Gudule and St. Hugh. The feast of lanterns. Tradition says that the daughter of a famous mandarin, walking alone by a lake one evening, fell in. The father called together his neighbours, and all went with lanterns to look for her, and happily she was rescued. In commemoration thereof an annual festival was held on the spot, and grew in time to the celebrated "feast of lanterns." (Present State of China.) À la lanterne. Hang him with the lantern or lamp ropes. A cry and custom introduced in the French revolution. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | In a centrifugal pump, a hollow casing on the engine side of the pump body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Enclosed light (candle or oil) carried by a mine worker. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In camping, lanterns are used to illuminate wide areas and provide light for nighttime activities.Some lanterns are battery-powered and have a lightbulb, often of the fluorescent type. They are easy to use and comparatively durable, but much less bright than propane lanterns.
Propane lanterns are more complex in design. A lantern of this type is typically screwed onto the top of a propane bottle. A fuel tube runs upwards from the bottle, then turns downward and is open at the end. The end is capped off with a small bag-shaped piece of loosely-woven fabric called the mantle. The mantle must be burned before its first use. Propane flowing from the fuel tube catches fire, and transfers its heat to the mantle, which incandescess like the filament in a lightbulb. For protection, a cylindrical glass shield called the globe is placed around the mantle. Propane lanterns are very bright, and can easily be used as reading lights.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lantern."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LANTERN | English | Leeds Health Air Quality Noise Traffic and Emissions Research Network | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Toy, plaything, bauble; doll; (puppet ); teetotum; knickknack; (trifle); magic lantern; (show); peep show, puppet show, raree show, gallanty show; toy shop; "quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles". |
Inquiry | Reconnoitering, reconnaissance; prying; Verb: espionage, espionnage; domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain; lantern of Diogenes. |
Narrowness Thinness | Having, slip; (filament); thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone. |
Opening | Embrasure, window, casement; abatjour; light; sky light, fan light; lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel; dormer, lantern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | He was like a lantern. He helped me to see things clear (The Grapes of Wrath; writing credit: John Steinbeck; Nunnally Johnson) No, the Green Lantern. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) We meet again, Green Lantern! (The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure; writing credit: George Kashdan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Festive Lantern (1960) Aladdin's Lantern (1938) A Dark Lantern (1920) The Red Lantern (1919) Lantern Hill (1990) | |
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 | "Paper Lantern". |  | After making contact, the forward end of tape is moved ahead Note lantern and flashlight - these operations were conducted at night Relatively constant night temperatures minimized expansion of tape Fig. No. 12, Appendix No. 3, Report of Superintendent ... 1901, p. 258. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Articles of whale-boat gear. 1. Lantern keg containing matches, bread,&c. 2 Boat compass. 3. Water keg. 4. Piggin for bailing water 5. Waif for signaling. 6. Tub oar crotch. 7. Double oar-lock 8. Large line in line-tub. 9. Knife to cut line. 10 Row-lock. 11. Hatchet 12. Grapnel. 13. Drag or drug to retard whale. 14. Canvas nipper. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | This brass signal lantern was the first artifact recovered from the MONITOR. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
 | The back-up strobe in the lantern room of the Yaquina Head lighthouse. Credit: Michael Noack. |  | Caption: Edison with Miners Safety Lantern {"Electric Mine Lamp"} Powered by Edison Storage Battery; May 1923; {14.625/27} (jpg). |
 | Saint Andrew's Church, Wilmington, Delaware, suggestion for a) w.i. transom grille and b) w.i. bracket lantern at entrance to chapel from south yard / The Iron-Craftsmen ; Pope & Kruse, arch'ts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unidentified gateway in stone wall with latticed arch and hanging lantern. Perspective sketch study elevations and plan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boy with lantern. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Frauenkirche, Dresden, with lofty lantern (310 ft.) N.E. across sq. by Luther Statue, Germany. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Lantern while drivin'" by Hannes Holst Commentary: "Speed of the car: 60km/h." | "Lantern Lake" by Lisa Christine Tam Commentary: "Illuminated lantern display at the Chinese Garden in Montreal." |
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 | Alarm; alert; balefire; beam; bonfire; flare; guidepost; heliograph; lamp; lantern; lighthouse; lodestar; pharos; radar; rocket; rocket; sign; signal fire; smoke signal; beacon; warning signal; watchtower. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff. |
William Shakespeare | You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A citizen came along with a lantern. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Under the sudden glow of a lantern he could recognise the smiling face of a priest |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The house was full of smoke, and the yellow lantern light threw heavy black shadows on the walls |
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| "Lantern" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.64% of the time. "Lantern" is used about 221 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.64% | 218 | 20,478 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 221 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "lantern". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Shenir | N/A | Biblical | Lantern |
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Expressions using "lantern": aristotles lantern ♦ Aristotle's lantern ♦ chinese lantern ♦ chinese lantern plant ♦ dark lantern ♦ fairy lantern ♦ friar's lantern ♦ golden fairy lantern ♦ hand lantern ♦ hurricane lantern ♦ lantern brass ♦ Lantern carrier ♦ lantern fly ♦ lantern gear ♦ lantern glazing ♦ lantern jaw ♦ Lantern jaws ♦ lantern net ♦ lantern of Diogenes ♦ lantern panes ♦ lantern pinion ♦ Lantern shell ♦ lantern slide ♦ lantern slide lecture ♦ lantern wheel ♦ magic lantern ♦ parish lantern ♦ spot lantern ♦ storm lantern ♦ tornado lantern ♦ white fairy lantern. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lantern": lantern-bearer, lantern-horns, lantern-illuminated, lantern-jawed, lantern-light, lantern-lit. | |
Ending with "lantern": coach-lantern, hand-lantern, jack-a-lantern, jack-o'-lantern, jack-o-lantern, Jack-with-a-lantern, magic-lantern, storm-lantern. | |
Containing "lantern": jack-o-lantern fungus. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lantern | 2,066 | garden lantern | 47 |
green lantern | 947 | moroccan lantern | 46 |
paper lantern | 888 | green lantern movie | 44 |
dj green lantern | 735 | green lantern picture | 43 |
japanese lantern | 423 | coleman lantern part | 40 |
jack o lantern | 279 | green lantern lyrics | 39 |
coleman lantern | 224 | chinese paper lantern | 39 |
chinese lantern | 218 | green lantern pic | 39 |
candle lantern | 101 | kerosene lantern | 39 |
dj green lantern lyrics | 81 | chinese lantern plant | 38 |
camping lantern | 75 | raise red lantern | 37 |
magic lantern | 64 | oil lantern | 37 |
railroad lantern | 58 | blue lantern inn | 33 |
dietz lantern | 55 | hanover lantern | 32 |
lantern fish | 55 | green lantern wallpaper | 31 |
gas lantern | 54 | antique lantern | 30 |
solar lantern | 54 | lantern make paper | 28 |
green lantern ring | 50 | hurricane lantern | 27 |
patio lantern | 49 | dj green invasion lantern | 27 |
outdoor lantern | 49 | post lantern | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lantern"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gallustër (dormer, skylight), fener (beacon, headlight, lamp, leading light, light, light house, street lamp), far (light house, lighthouse), fanar (lighthouse). (various references) | |
Arabic | فانوس (lamp), منور السقف, مشكاة (lamp, niche, pendant, recess). (various references) | |
Basque | linterna. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фенер (lamp), фар (beacon, headlight, lamp, light, lighthouse, sea mark), горна част на фар, остъклен купол, оберлихт (lantern-light, skylight), зъбно колело с цевни зъби. (various references) | |
Chinese | 燈籠 , 灯笼. (various references) | |
Czech | lucerna. (various references) | |
Danish | lygte (hand lantern, headlamp, lamp, storm lamp), lanternering, lanterne (hand lantern, lamp, storm lamp), stormlygte (hand lantern, lamp, storm lamp), haandlygte (hand lamp, hand lantern, lamp, pocket lamp, storm lamp), belysningsarmatur (fitting, lighting fitting, ligthing fixture, luminaire), belysningsanordning (fitting, lighting fitting, ligthing fixture, luminaire), armatur (armour, fitting, lighting fitting, ligthing fixture, luminaire), akseltaetningsdel. (various references) | |
Dutch | lantaarn (fitting, hand lantern, headlight, lamp, lighting fitting, ligthing fixture, luminaire, port, skylight, storm lamp). (various references) | |
Esperanto | lanterno. (various references) | |
Faeroese | lykt, skipsljós. (various references) | |
Farsi | فانوس (Lamp, Louver), چراغ دریاءی (Beacon), چراغ بادی . (various references) | |
Finnish | lyhty (headlight, lamp), valaisin (lamp, lighting fixture). (various references) | |
French | lanterne (hand lantern, lamp, lantern-ring, storm lamp). (various references) | |
Frisian | lantearne. (various references) | |
German | Laterne (lamp, streetlamp, streetlight), leuchte (genius, lamp, leading light, light, shine, shiner, wizard). (various references) | |
Greek | φανός (hand lantern, head lamp, headlamp, lamp, storm lamp, yead light). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פנס (lamp), עששית (lamp, oil lamp). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lámpás, lámpa (headlight, lamp, light), világító (illuminant, illuminating, illuminative, luminous, self-luminous), laterna (lantern-light), csapkoszorús kerék (lantern-pinion, lantern-wheel), ablakos tornyocska (lantern-light), ablakos kupola (lantern-light). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lentera (beacon), misbah (lamp). (various references) | |
Italian | lanterna (brace, fitting, hand lantern, lamp, lighting fitting, ligthing fixture, luminaire, luminous box, spider, storm lamp), lampione (lamp, street lamp). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 灯籠 , ランゲルハンス島 (athletic-style shirt, bag, inside-the-park home run, isle of Langerhans, knapsack, lance, Lancel, lancer, land, landing, landing bahn, landmark, LANDSAT, landscape, lanthanum, Lanvin, launch, launcher, laundry, lingerie, lunch, lunch set, luncheon, lunchtime, lunchtime concert, meeting, pensioneer, random, random sampling, rumble seat, runner, runner's high, running, running cost, running home run, running homer, running stock, running vest, run-through, runtime, satchel with back straps, tank top). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ランタン (lanthanum), とうろう (going into a tall building, going up a tower, mantis, praying mantis, visiting a brothel). (various references) | |
Korean | 손전등. (various references) | |
Manx | londeyr (glazed-in light, light, stable lamp, storm lamp), jeenlys. (various references) | |
Norwegian | lykt, lanterne. (various references) | |
Occitan | lampa (lamp), calelh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anternlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lanterna (flashlight, lamp). (various references) | |
Romanian | lanternou, lanternã (glim, lamp, torch), felinar (head-light, lamp, light). (various references) | |
Russian | фонарь (bay window, clearstory, flashlight). (various references) | |
Scottish | trillsean. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lampa (dark lantern, lamp, tube), fenjer (lamp). (various references) | |
Spanish | farol (bluff, lamp, try on), linterna (lamp, torch). (various references) | |
Sranan | lanteri. (various references) | |
Swedish | lykta (lamp), lanterna (light). (various references) | |
Turkish | fener (beacon, cresset, dark lantern, flambeau, glim, lamp, lighthouse, phanar), fanus (bell glass, globe). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | верхнє світло (fanlight, skylight), ліхтар (buat, lamp). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đèn lồng. (various references) | |
Welsh | llusern (lamp). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | lampter. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lampadarum, lampadas, lampades, lampadibus, lampadis, lampas, lanterna, lanternis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 22, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti su o lucnoV mou kurie kai kurioV eklamyei moi to skotoV mou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quia tu lucerna mea Domine et Domine inluminabis tenebras meas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For thou, Lord, my lantern, and thou, Lord, shalt liytne my derkenessis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me. |
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| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 22, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | Kay ikaw mao ang akong suga, Oh Jehova; Ug si Jehova magahayag sa akong kangitngit. |
| Chinese | 耶 和 華 阿 、 你 是 我 的 燈 ． 耶 和 華 必 照 明 我 的 黑 暗 。 |
| Croatian | Jahve, ti moju svjetiljku užižeš, Bože, tminu moju obasjavaš: |
| Danish | Ja, du er min Lampe, HERRE! HERREN opklarer mit Mørke. |
| Dutch | Want Gij zijt mijn Lamp, o HEERE, en de HEERE doet mijn duisternis opklaren. |
| Finnish | Sillä sinä, Herra, olet minun lamppuni; Herra valaisee minun pimeyteni. |
| French | Oui, tu es ma lumière, ô Éternel! L`Éternel éclaire mes ténèbres. |
| German | Denn du, HERR, bist meine Leuchte; der HERR macht meine Finsternis licht. |
| Haitian Creole | Seyè, ou se limyè mwen. Se ou ki wete m' nan fènwa kote m' te ye a. |
| Hungarian | Mert te vagy az én szövétnekem, Uram, &S az Úr megvilágosítja az én sötétségemet. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau menyalakan pelitaku; TUHAN Allahku menerangi kegelapanku. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena Engkaulah pelitaku, ya Tuhan! dan Tuhan juga menukarkan kegelapanku dengan terang cuaca. |
| Italian | Sì, tu sei la mia lucerna, Signore; il Signore illumina la mia tenebra. |
| Korean | 여 호 와 여, 주 는 나 의 등 불 이 시 니 여 호 와 께 서 나 의 흑 암 을 밝 히 시 리 이 다 |
| Maori | Ko koe hoki toku rama, e Ihowa: ma Ihowa e whakamarama toku pouri. |
| Norwegian | For du er mitt lys, Herre, og Herren opklarer mitt mørke. |
| Portuguese | Porque tu, Senhor, és a minha candeia; e o Senhor alumiará as minhas trevas. |
| Rumanian | Da, Tu ewti lumina mea, Doamne! Domnul lumineazq kntunerecul meu. |
| Russian | фЩ, зПУРПДЙ, УЧЕФЙМШОЙЛ НПК; зПУРПДШ РТПУЧЕЭБЕФ ФШНХ НПА. |
| Spanish | Ciertamente tú eres mi lámpara, oh Jehovah; Jehovah ilumina mis tinieblas. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lantern": lanterns. (additional references) | |
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"Lantern" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lanteen, lantent, Lanter, Lanterna, lantorn, lanturn, latern, latren, Lautern, leancharn, Lentfer, letern, Lindegren, linterd, lintery, litern, Llanegryn, Llanherne, Logteren, slantern. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lantern" (pronounced la"ntern) |
| 4 | -n t er n | intern. |
| 3 | -t er n | cistern, eastern, lectern, midwestern, northeastern, northwestern, pattern, southeastern, southwestern, western. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: antler, lanner, learnt, rental, tanner. | |
-2 letters: alert, alter, anent, antre, artel, laten, later, leant, learn, ratel, renal, taler. | |
-3 letters: ante, earl, earn, elan, etna, lane, late, lean, lear, lent, near, neat, rale, rant, rate, real, rent, tael, tale, tare, tarn, teal, tear, tela, tern. | |
-4 letters: ale, alt, ane, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: internal, lanneret, lanterns, unlearnt. | |
+2 letters: entangler, interclan, internals, lannerets, triennial. | |
+3 letters: antennular, entanglers, hinterland, interlunar, internally, internodal, interplant, interrenal, interzonal, intolerant, naltrexone, noncentral, nonliteral, nonthermal, ornamental, pregnantly, replanting, resonantly, strandline, triennials. | |
+4 letters: alternating, alternation, antinuclear, antiwrinkle, banteringly, counterplan, crenelation, crenulation, enlargement, enthralling, eternalness, franklinite, hinterlands, incremental, inferential, insertional, interannual, intercensal, interdental, interisland, interlacing, interlaying, interlinear, interlunary, internalise, internality, internalize, interplants, intolerance, inventorial, itinerantly, naltrexones, naturalness, neanderthal, neurulation, neutralness, nomenclator, nonintegral, nonliterary, nonliterate, nonmaterial, nonmetrical, nonrelative, nonrelevant, nontemporal, nonterminal, ornamentals, outlearning, permanently, preplanting, rallentando, rataplanned, realignment, redundantly, reinflating, reinflation, repentantly, repugnantly, strandlines, transalpine, transiently, translucent, trenchantly, triennially, uncertainly, unfaltering, uniparental, unprintable, unreluctant. | |
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