Definition of jack-o'-lantern in English:
jack-o'-lantern
noundʒakəˈlantənˈdʒækəˌlæn(t)ərn
1A lantern made from a hollowed-out pumpkin or turnip in which holes are cut to represent facial features, typically made at Halloween.
Example sentencesExamples
- Cast a delicious spell on a room by lighting jack-o'-lanterns with real cinnamon, clove and nutmeg candles made of clean-burning soy wax - you'll enjoy all tire sensory seduction of pumpkin pie without the work.
- He wasn't around last Halloween when someone smashed the six jack-o'-lanterns I carved to spell ‘BE SAFE.’
- Make sure costumes are short enough that kids don't trip on them or inadvertently brush them against the low-lying flames in jack-o'-lanterns and candles.
- Candlelit jack-o'-lanterns should be kept away from landings and doorsteps where costumes could brush against the flame.
- But zucchini is a different matter: His squash grow so well - and so large - that he saves the biggest ones to carve as green jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween.
2archaic A will-o'-the-wisp.
Definition of jack-o'-lantern in US English:
jack-o'-lantern
nounˈjakəˌlan(t)ərnˈdʒækəˌlæn(t)ərn
1A lantern made from a hollowed-out pumpkin in which holes are cut to represent facial features, typically made at Halloween.
Example sentencesExamples
- But zucchini is a different matter: His squash grow so well - and so large - that he saves the biggest ones to carve as green jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween.
- Cast a delicious spell on a room by lighting jack-o'-lanterns with real cinnamon, clove and nutmeg candles made of clean-burning soy wax - you'll enjoy all tire sensory seduction of pumpkin pie without the work.
- Candlelit jack-o'-lanterns should be kept away from landings and doorsteps where costumes could brush against the flame.
- He wasn't around last Halloween when someone smashed the six jack-o'-lanterns I carved to spell ‘BE SAFE.’
- Make sure costumes are short enough that kids don't trip on them or inadvertently brush them against the low-lying flames in jack-o'-lanterns and candles.
2archaic An ignis fatuus.