aladdin's lamp

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   (Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie

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Questions about aladdin's lamp

What does aladdin's lamp mean?

aladdin's lamp means "(Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie".

Is aladdin's lamp a common word?

aladdin's lamp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.