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open, sesame

open, sesame is the alternative form of open sesame.

Meaning of open sesame

Phrase

open sesame

  1. open up (especially referring to doors)

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Phrase capitalized: open, Sesame

open, Sesame

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of open sesame.
    • “Habit is ten natures,” went on being proclaimed in my ears; and at last it came home to me as a weighty saying, which might contain the educational “Open, Sesame!” I was in quest of.1886, Charlotte M[aria] Mason, Home Education: A Course of Lectures to Ladies, Delivered in Bradford, in the Winter of 1885–1886, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., […], page 70
    • This is where education steps in, crying, “Open, Sesame!” to the locked secrets of nine-tenths of a universe, and causing to pass before the eye the variegated life and literature of nations inhabiting the uttermost parts of the earth.1906 March 6, E[rnest] Bryham Parsons, “Languages”, in Pot-Pourri Parisien, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Publishing Company, published 1912, page 142

Questions about open, sesame

What is open, sesame the alternative form of?
Open, sesame is the alternative form of open sesame.
What part of speech is open, sesame?
Open, sesame is a phrase.

Words near open, sesame in the dictionary

  1. open world
  2. open worlds
  3. open wound
  4. open wounds
  5. open'd
  6. open, sesame
  7. open-air
  8. open-air museum
  9. open-air museums
  10. open-aired
  11. open-and-shut

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