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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
Aladdin
Aladdin [Aladdin] BrE NAmE
a poor young Chinese boy in a story in ↑Arabian Nights. A ↑magician (= a person who does magic tricks) asks him to go down into a deep ↑cave full of gold and jewels, but to bring up only an old lamp. Aladdin will not give the ↑magician the lamp until he helps him out of the ↑cave, so the ↑magician shuts him in. Aladdin discovers that when he rubs the lamp, a ↑genie (= a spirit with magic powers) comes out of it. He uses the power of the ↑genie to become rich, defeat the ↑magician and marry a princess. The story of Aladdin is often performed as a ↑pantomime in Britain. The phrase an Aladdin’s cave is sometimes used to mean a place full of wonderful things
•The shop is a real Aladdin’s cave of unusual gift ideas.
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