lantern
A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
Other meanings
Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
A kind of
- lamp
Kinds of lantern
- dark lantern
Related words
- crab lantern
- lanternfish
- lanternist
- lanternless
- lanternlight
- lanternlike
- lanternshark
- Lantern Festival
- blind lantern
- Chinese lantern
- dark lantern
- dark-lantern
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "lucerna" (lamp).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “lantern” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.