Definition of Thousand and One Nights

1. Noun. A collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century.

Exact synonyms: Arabian Nights, Arabian Nights' Entertainment
Examples of category: Aladdin's Lamp
Generic synonyms: Folk Tale, Folktale

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thousand And One Nights

Thorne
Thornton
Thornton Niven Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornwaldt
Thoroughbred
Thorpe
Thorshavn
Thorstein Bunde Veblen
Thorstein Veblen
Thos.
Thoth
Thotlavalluru
Thousand Island dressing
Thousand Oaks
Thousand and One Nights (current term)
Thr
Thrace
Thracian
Thracians
Thraco-Phrygian
Thraupidae
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Threadneedle Street
Three Kings' Day
Threeness
Threskiornis
Threskiornis aethiopica
Threskiornithidae
Thriambus

Literary usage of Thousand and One Nights

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"It is the first complete edition of the " Thousand-and-one Nights" that has ever been printed in Europe, and the form in which it is presented is at once ..."

2. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"They much resemble the tales of the Thousand and One Nights; and although these have Bagdad as the locality of their narration, their origin is no more ..."

3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"Transcribed from Galland's Ms. of The thousand and one nights. ... A NEW translation of the tales of a Thousand and one nights. . .with copious notes by Ed ..."

4. Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission from Country by Thomas Keightley (1834)
"IT is now more than a century and a quarter since Europe became, through M. Galland's French translation, acquainted with the Thousand and One Nights ', the ..."

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