Definitions for hareems

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hareems ha·reem

Spelling: [hah-reem]

IPA: /hɑˈrim/

Hareems is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in hareems (aeehmrs).

Definitions for hareems

noun

1. harem.
2. the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
3. the women in a Muslim household, including the mother, sisters, wives, concubines, daughters, entertainers, and servants.
4. Animal Behavior. a social group of females, as elephant seals, accompanied or followed by one fertile male who denies other males access to the group.
5. Facetious: Sometimes Offensive. a group of women associated in any way with one man or household:

Origin of hareems

First recorded in 1625-35, harem is from the Arabic word harīm harem, literally, forbidden

Examples for hareems

He was very young, and stepped to the throne from the hareem.

For it was inconceivable that he should now take Rosamund to his hareem.

The Ameer has sent a white female slave for the Sultan's hareem.

She did not expect great results, or look for much enthusiasm, in the hareem.

On the 27th of March, 1838, Miss Holliday went in state to the hareem.

She declined all invitations to take up her abode in the hareem, although promised entire liberty.

And summoning his attendants, he directed them to conduct her to the hareem in the palace.

It deals with a youthful bride who has just been attached to a Persian hareem.

But these excellences, though found in a hareem, will not fuse, as in a poem or a picture.

Moorish women are only too ready to become inmates of the Sultan's hareem.