Lantern (disambiguation)

A lantern is a portable lighting device used to illuminate broad areas.

Lantern or Lanterns may also refer to:

• Roof lantern, an architectural term to describe a structure above a dome, or other roof, with openings to admit light or air
• Stage lighting instrument used in theatre and television
• A large window above a stage, used before stage lighting to illuminate the action
• The structure enclosing the light and lens of a lighthouse
• Lantern (Clogs album), a 2006 album by Clogs
• Lantern (Hudson Mohawke album), a 2015 album by Hudson Mohawke
• Lanterns (album), a 2013 album by Son Lux
• Lanterns (song). a song by Birds of Tokyo
• The Lantern (Cape newspaper), an early newspaper of the Cape Colony
• The Lantern, a student-run newspaper at The Ohio State University
• The Lantern (film), 1938 Czech film
• Lantern frame, a machine used to wind cotton in an Arkwright-type mill
• Large flashlights of six volts and more, with the battery cells housed side by side rather than end to end, have often been called lanterns, even though they produce a directional beam and are typically used for directed rather than area illumination.
• Lantern (software), a free peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.

See also

• Cage gear, also called a lantern gear or lantern pinion. A type of gear with cylindrical rods for teeth
• Chinese lantern (disambiguation)
• Green Lantern, a fictional DC Comics superhero
• Lanterns of the Dead, an architectural name for the small towers in stone found chiefly in the center and west of France
• The Lanterns, small Tasmanian islands, Australia
• The Lantern (disambiguation)