Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A candleholder, especially a large or ornate one with several arms or branches.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In antiquity: A candlestick.
- noun A lampstand; a kind of stand used among the Romans to support a lamp or lamps.
- noun Any branched candlestick differing from a chandelier or bracket in resting upon a foot.
- noun A variety of arabesque in which a strongly marked vertical motive is present.
- noun plural In sponges, branching terminal spines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lamp stand of any sort.
- noun A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.
- noun A large candlestick, having several branches; also called
candelabra .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
candle holder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The only change here regards the Paschal candle, which is moved from its little bracket to the column (“in candelabrum suum”).
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Quite determined to reread such portions of it as I had long before marked as pertinent to the very attempt I had in mind, I brought in the candelabrum from the parlor and drew out a table to hold it.
The Filigree Ball 1903
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The other, that he had carried up to her room a large candelabrum from the drawing-room mantel.
The Filigree Ball 1903
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Sitting on the tabletop beside the candelabrum was a tarnished silver cup holding several wooden matches.
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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Qwilleran loaded the bowl in the trunk of his car — it was even heavier than it looked — and drove to the Village Smithy to tell Vance that his candelabrum was a great success.
The Cat Who Moved A Mountain Braun, Lilian Jackson 1992
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The base of the candelabrum is a tripod, on which stands a group of three female figures; representing Law, Justice, and Poetry, the two former modeled from Flaxman's sculpture on Lord Mansfield's monument in
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 Various
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The lamp-stand, "candelabrum," which Moses was commanded to make for the tabernacle, according to the pattern shown him.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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On Holy Saturday, the Missal of 1969 prescribes explicitly that the Paschal Candle is to be placed in a “candelabrum magnum” when it is brought into the church, restoring one of the most important symbols of the ancient rite.
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The same goes for James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), which, in any case, doesn't hold a cobwebbed candelabrum to Mel Brooks's classic Young Frankenstein (1974).
Stefan Beck: Wrap Party: Freund's The Mummy and Baba Ghanoush Stefan Beck 2010
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The same goes for James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), which, in any case, doesn't hold a cobwebbed candelabrum to Mel Brooks's classic Young Frankenstein (1974).
Stefan Beck: Wrap Party: Freund's The Mummy and Baba Ghanoush Stefan Beck 2010
qroqqa commented on the word candelabrum
Now usually replaced by its original plural candelabra in a singular sense.
July 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word candelabrum
A candle made in Birmingham. Probably fake.
February 15, 2010