Thousand and One Nights

Definitions of Thousand and One Nights
  1. noun
    a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century
    synonyms: Arabian Nights, Arabian Nights' Entertainment
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    folk tale, folktale
    a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
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