1. A case for holding, and sometimes carrying a light; a little dome raised over the roof of a building to give light, and to serve as a crowning to the fabric; a square cage which illuminates a corridor or gallery; a kind of pinion on which the teeth of the main wheel acts. A dark lantern, one which may be closed so as entirely to hide the light. Magic lantern, an optical machine by which painted images are represented so much magnified as to appear like the effect of magic. Lantern-fly, a S. American insect, which emits a light in the dark. Chinese lantern, one of thin paper. Feast of lanterns, a Chinese festival, celebrated on the 1st of each month. Lantern-jaws, long thin jaws; a thin visage. Lantern-jawed, having a thin visage.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• lanters,
• lattern,
• canten,
• lanteens,
• landen,
• latern,
• lanter,
• litern,
• centern,
• lanten,
• lanturns,
• lanturn,
• lantent,
• ventern,
• pantern,
• lanzen,
• lanteren,
• wanten,
• lantin,
• lonterm

• LANTIRN,
• londrina,
• Landreneau,
• jack-of-lantern,
• Landers,
• lanterne,
• jack-o\'-lantern,
• Jack-with-a-lantern,
• Landturn,
• landrin,
• lantern-jaws,
• intern,
• LANTRIN,
• o\'lantern,
• jack-o-lantern,
• jack-o'-lantern,
• lantern-jawed,
• launder,
• Top-lantern,
• landeros,
• Lindareina,
• lander,
• Lantern-wheel,
• lanternfly,
• laundering,
• lanthier,
• magic-lantern,
• Lantrip,
• lantern-light,
• lanterman,
• jack-a-lantern,
• Lanter,
• lanterna,
• Lantern-tests,
• lantern-fly.

The adjective form of the word "lantern" is "lanterned".

The plural of the "lantern" can be the "lanterns".

The singular of the "lantern" can be the "lantern".