Usually means: Jewish holiday celebrating deliverance, joy.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Purim:

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  1. purim: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Purim, Purim: Merriam-Webster
  3. Purim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Purim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Purim: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Purim: Vocabulary.com
  7. Purim, purim: Wordnik
  8. Purim: Wiktionary
  9. Purim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Purim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Purim: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Purim: Dictionary.com
  13. Purim: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Purim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Purim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. purim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Purim: Rhymezone
  18. Purim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. purim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. purim: FreeDictionary.org
  21. purim: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Purim: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purim: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. Purim: Holidays Around the World

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Purim: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Purim: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purim: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Purim)

▸ noun:  (Judaism) A Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a complete massacre at the hand of Haman the Amalekite.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
Veadar, Pesach, Adar, Passover, pirsumei nisa, hamentashen, Pesah, humentashen, chag, Day of Atonement, more...

Opposite:
non-Purim, anti-Purim, un-Purim

Phrases:
shushan purim, Flora Purim, more...

Adjectives:
happy, special, good, first, next, last, local, second, original, particular, annual

Colors:
    purple,     gold,     silver,     blue,     red, more...
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Similar:
Veadar, Pesach, Adar, Passover, pirsumei nisa, hamentashen, Pesah, humentashen, chag, Day of Atonement, more...

Opposite:
non-Purim, anti-Purim, un-Purim

Phrases:
shushan purim, Flora Purim, more...

Adjectives:
happy, special, good, first, next, last, local, second, original, particular, annual

Colors:
    purple,     gold,     silver,     blue,     red, more...



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