ali baba

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   the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment

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Questions about ali baba

What does ali baba mean?

ali baba means "the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment".

Is ali baba a common word?

ali baba is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.