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Definition of Thousand and one nights
1. Noun. A collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century.
Examples of category: Aladdin's Lamp
Generic synonyms: Folk Tale, Folktale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thousand And One Nights
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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