Usually means: Free from any contaminating substances.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word pure:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. pure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pure, Pure, pure, pure, pure: Wordnik
  7. pure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pure: Wiktionary
  9. pure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pure: Dictionary.com
  13. pure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Pure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pure: Rhymezone
  19. pure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Pure: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. pure: Free Dictionary
  23. pure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pure: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. pure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. pure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  27. pure: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Pure (album), Pure (film), pure: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pure (album), Pure (film), pure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pure (album), Pure (film), pure: Medical dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PURE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. pure: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pure, pure, pure: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pure: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See pureing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
adjective:  Free of foreign material or pollutants.
adjective:  Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
adjective:  Mere; that and that only.
adjective:  (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
adjective:  (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
adjective:  (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
adjective:  (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
adverb:  (Liverpool, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
verb:  (golf) To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.
noun:  One who, or that which, is pure.
noun:  Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”) [(chiefly historical) Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins.]

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