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What is the noun for lanterns?

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lantern
  1. A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
  2. (theater) Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
  3. (architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  4. (architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  5. (architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
  6. (engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
  7. (steam engines) 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.
  8. (rail transport) A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
  9. (metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  10. (zoology) Aristotle's lantern
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “Daniel was indeed awake, carrying the lit lantern and already halfway to the door when she burst in.”
lanternlight
  1. The light of a lantern.
lanthorn
  1. (archaic) A lantern.
  2. Examples:
    1. “And he would often take a walk in a winter's evening with a lanthorn, because he had not been able to get ready earlier in the day.”
      “He snatched the lanthorn Joe carried, held it down, and stepped off the skep.”
      “As he closed the shutter, the oast-house seemed dark before the day's end, and he lit the candle in the lanthorn.”
lanternlights
  1. plural of lanternlight
lanthorns
  1. plural of lanthorn
lanterns
  1. plural of lantern
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The passage was lighted with a few lanterns that were magically kept aflame, and it was almost as cold there as it was outside.”
      “At night, the city is aglow in light cast by red lanterns, scattered throughout Old Town and high in the surrounding hills.”
      “There were little Japanese lanterns hanging everywhere, with compact fluorescent bulbs.”
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