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jack-o'-lantern
[ jak-uh-lan-tern ]
noun
- a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to represent human eyes, nose, and mouth and in which a candle or other light may be placed, traditionally made for display at Halloween.
- a commercially made lantern resembling this.
- any phenomenon of light, as a corona discharge or an ignis fatuus.
- a poisonous luminescent orange fungus, Omphalotus olearius, often found in clusters at the base of hardwood tree stumps.
jack-o'-lantern
noun
- a lantern made from a hollowed pumpkin, which has holes cut in it to represent a human face
- a will-o'-the-wisp or similar phenomenon
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jack-o'-lantern1
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Example Sentences
Hurrah for the Jack-o-lantern witch, some one said, and the crowd shouted their happiness and relief.
In her window there still stood the grinning Jack-o-lantern, and at sight of it bursts of laughter took away all thought of tears.
It had the appearance of a grinning monster, the boy laughed at his memory of the Jack-o-Lantern.
A lighted jack-o-lantern came from between the folds of a curtain which hung from the ceiling.
At each corner of the table a jack-o-lantern and towards the center, baskets made of pumpkins full of red, green and yellow fruit.
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