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jack o'lantern
jack o'lantern
A pumpkin that has a face carved into it and is lit from within (usually by candles) so that the "face" glows. Typically used as a Halloween decoration. We're carving a jack o'lantern tonight so we can put it outside our door on Halloween.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
HjÖRtur | | - | Icelandic |
Nurullah | | - | Arabic, Turkish |
Nacio | | NAH-thyo (Spanish), NAH-syo (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |
Denisa | | de-NEE-sah (Romanian) | Czech, Slovak, Romanian |
Gethsemane | | geth-SEM-ə-nee (English) | Biblical |
Marisela | | - | Spanish |