harem
IPA: hˈɛrʌm
noun
- The private section of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers.
- A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
- A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals.
- (ornithology) A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
- (slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
- (uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.
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Examples of "harem" in Sentences
- Cant be considered a harem anime.
- Three crates arrive to the harem.
- Ottoman harem music belly dancing.
- Harem is the portion for the family.
- Just as the words Harem and Mecha are.
- The Harem was a small world in itself.
- But will consider adding Mothra to harem.
- But if there's a vacancy in your harem, hmmm....
- Then there are the women in the harem comedy as well.
- The Turkish harem comes from the Arabic word ḤarÄm, meaning
- Cue Egyptian babe, resplendent in harem gear and packing heat.
- He was brought in because of his collusion with Tiy and the women of the harem.
- The most obvious yet often unasked question - why the term harem to qualify this pant?
- Now why would westeners even assign the word harem to these pants, even the ones that are really that style and not trousers with gathered legs?
- In long passages both bawdy and fantastic, we are shown how the feminine principle makes nonsense of all forms of statecraft, including even the cleverest ones adumbrated in The Prince, and how the distance between the boudoir and the bordello or zenana or harem is disconcertingly short.
- Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_
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