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A lantern is a light you can carry. The old kind is a metal box with glass sides, and a flame or a bulb inside, so the wind cannot blow it out. People walked with lanterns at night, hung them by a door, or took them into a barn. Paper lanterns — the kind you see at Mid-Autumn in Taiwan — are lanterns too: a light inside a paper shell. Today many lanterns are camping lamps with a handle and a cover around the light. A table lamp usually sits still; a lantern is made to carry or hang. English borrowed the word from French, from Latin lanterna. That Latin word was a mixed-up form of a Greek word for a torch, close to our word lamp, and Latin lucerna (a lamp) pulled the sound too. For a few hundred years some people wrote lanthorn, because they guessed the sides were made of horn. That story is a folk tale about the spelling, not where the word really came from. Old English had its own word, lēohtfæt, “light-container”; lantern took its place.
From the word’s history
From Middle English lanterne, via Old French from Latin lanterna, a corruption of Greek lamptēr 'torch' influenced by lucerna.
經古法文來自拉丁文 lanterna，源自希臘文 lamptēr「火把」。
組成From Middle English lanterne, from Old French, from Latin lanterna. That Latin word was a changed form of Greek lamptḗr (torch), also pulled toward Latin lucerna (lamp).
同家族的字
- lampboth go back to the same Greek shining / torch family
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lanternnoun/ˈlæntən/
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A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
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entertainmentlifestyletheaterEspecially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
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architectureAn open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
- On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here—as here he is—with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.
- The station also boasts a large semi-domed French pavilion roof with fish-scale tiles and iron cresting, plus a rectangular hall with arcaded upper storey and wooden lantern.
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architectureA cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
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architectureA smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
- the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
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A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
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rail-transportrailwaystransportA light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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artscraftsengineeringA perforated barrel to form a core upon.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyAristotle's lantern
lanternverb/ˈlæntən/
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To furnish with a lantern.
- to lantern a lighthouse
lanternadj/ˈlæntən/
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Of a facial feature, large and squarish in shape as an old-fashioned lantern.
- A youngish looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.
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