Thousand and One Nights, The — or Arabian Nights Entertainment Arabic Alf laylah wa laylah Collection of Oriental stories of uncertain date and authorship. The frame story, in which the vengeful King Shahryar s plan to marry and execute a new wife each day is foiled by the… … Universalium
Thousand and One Nights — Thousand and One Nights, the →Arabian Nights … Dictionary of contemporary English
Thousand and One Nights, The — Like CHAUCER’s CANTERBURY TALES or BOCCACCIO’s DECAMERON, The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa Layla) is a collection of stories within a frame narrative; the frame creates a context for the telling of tales within the larger tale, and… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
thousand — /thow zeuhnd/, n., pl. thousands, (as after a numeral) thousand, adj. n. 1. a cardinal number, 10 times 100. 2. a symbol for this number, as 1000 or M. 3. thousands. the numbers between 1000 and 999,999, as in referring to an amount of money:… … Universalium
Thousand and One Nights — noun a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century • Syn: ↑Arabian Nights Entertainment, ↑Arabian Nights • Members of this Topic: ↑Aladdin s lamp • Instance Hypernyms: ↑folktale, ↑folk tale … Useful english dictionary
Thousand and One Nights, The. — See Arabian Nights Entertainments. * * * … Universalium
Thousand and One Nights — Arabian Nights (collection of 8th 16th century Arabic stories) … English contemporary dictionary
Thousand and One Nights — noun The The → Arabian Nights Entertainment …
Thousand and One Nights, The. — See Arabian Nights Entertainments … Useful english dictionary
One Thousand and One Nights — Arabian Nights redirects here. For other uses, see Arabian Nights (disambiguation). For other uses, see One Thousand and One Nights (disambiguation). Arab World … Wikipedia
