lantern
/ˈlantən
/noun
1A lamp with a transparent case protecting the flame or electric bulb, and typically having a handle by which it may be carried or hung: a paper lantern...
- Over a three-day period, candles, oil lamps, paper lanterns, and electric bulbs are lit to show how angels lit Buddha's return from heaven.
- Maxine flicked on the electric lantern she was carrying, filling the corridor with a crisp, bluish light that was strange after the faint orange illumination of the torches.
- Our hosts provided us each with a candle-lit paper lantern to carry.
2A square, curved, or polygonal structure on the top of a dome or a room, with the sides glazed or open so as to admit light: the building is well lit by the ring of windows in the octagonal lantern...
- The hexagonal belfry contains six louvers with pointed arches and is crowned by an octagonal lantern and a copper dome.
- Daylight is admitted by a lantern and bounced off a textile covered funnel-shaped reflector built off the column.
- On top of each pyramid is a lantern that both brings light to the central stair of the pavilion and acts as a climate control mechanism.
2.1The light chamber at the top of a lighthouse.The proposed aerial will stick out for 1.5 metres alongside the lower walkway railings below the lighthouse lantern, and has two antennae of nearly a metre each.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French lanterne, from Latin lanterna, from Greek lamptēr 'torch, lamp', from lampein 'to shine'.