hurricane lantern

Questions about hurricane lantern

What is another word for hurricane lantern?

It depends which hurricane lantern you mean. In the sense “an oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds; candlestick with a glass chimney”, the synonyms are hurricane lamp, tornado lantern, storm lantern, storm lamp. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hurricane lantern?

WordNet records no antonym for hurricane lantern. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hurricane lantern come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hurricane lantern

• Full entry for hurricane lanternAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hurricane lanternWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.