dark lantern

1. 1.

   a lantern with a single opening and a sliding panel that can be closed to conceal the light

   Synonymsbull's-eye

   Broaderlantern

Questions about dark lantern

What does dark lantern mean?

dark lantern means "a lantern with a single opening and a sliding panel that can be closed to conceal the light".

What is another word for dark lantern?

Close synonyms include bull's-eye. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dark lantern a common word?

dark lantern 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.