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Definition of Harem
1. Noun. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
Definition of Harem
1. n. The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.
Definition of Harem
1. Noun. The private part of an Arab household. In traditional Arab culture, this part of the household was forbidden to male strangers. ¹
2. Noun. A group of women, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household. ¹
3. Noun. 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, sea elephants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Harem
1. the section of a Muslim household reserved for women [n -S]
Medical Definition of Harem
1. 1. The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families. 2. The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio. Origin: Ar.haram, orig, anything forbidden of sacred, fr. Harama to forbid, prohibit Alternative forms: haram and hareem. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harem
Literary usage of Harem
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1899)
"passage which was closed by four gates, two of bronze and two of iron, whereat
black eunuchs stood on guard night and day—lay the imperial harem, ..."
2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... the harem, I always took care that my deportment in their prefence ... to me
in the harem, by convincing the ignorant part of it that I paid very little ..."
3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"The women of the king's harem are to be considered as forming part of the royal
... 1 The maids of the harem, at the king's pleasure, became his concubines ..."
4. The Story of Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole (1888)
"The harem was exclusively tenanted by the women of the imperial household; no
man save the ... In the middle of the harem garden rose the Sultan's pavilion, ..."
5. Women Under Polygamy by Walter Matthew Gallichan (1915)
"She may have entered the harem at a tender age, knowing very little indeed of the
... While the rulers of the harem exercise the most cautious and elaborate ..."
6. The Story of Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1888)
"passage which was closed by four gates, two of bronze and two of iron, whereat
black eunuchs stood on guard night and day—lay the imperial harem, ..."
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