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LANTERN

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 I. (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)

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 Context examples: 

Hannah soon had a lantern lit. The vehicle had stopped at the wicket; the driver opened the door: first one well-known form, then another, stepped out.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

CO is found in combustion fumes, such as those made by cars and trucks, lanterns, stoves, gas ranges and heating systems.

(Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Nor was this all, for the sound of several footsteps running came already to our ears, and as we looked back in their direction, a light tossing to and fro and still rapidly advancing showed that one of the newcomers carried a lantern.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Miss Morland has been talking of nothing more dreadful than a new publication which is shortly to come out, in three duodecimo volumes, two hundred and seventy-six pages in each, with a frontispiece to the first, of two tombstones and a lantern—do you understand?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I was the only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern.

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

In the yellow lantern light we peered at what we had accomplished.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Musgrave still stood with a very pale face, swinging his lantern and peering down into the hole.

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

I turned the stable lantern on to ’im, but ’e ducked ’is face, an’ I could only swear to ’is red ’ead.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That, at least, is very easily settled,” said Holmes, lighting his little pocket lantern.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here, too, is my dark lantern.

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