HAREM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harem mean? 

• HAREM (noun)
  The noun HAREM has 1 sense:

1. living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

  Familiarity information: HAREM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAREM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hareem; harem; seraglio; serail

Hypernyms ("harem" is a kind of...):

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

 Context examples 

We watched him travel slowly inward, threading about among the harems along what must have been the path.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I'll be preparing myself to go out as a missionary to preach liberty to them that are enslaved—your harem inmates amongst the rest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had much for which to thank Wolf Larsen, was my thought as we went along the path between the jostling harems.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An hour later we went proudly back along the path between the harems.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“It would be better, I imagine, if you let harems alone and devoted your attention to lonely and inoffensive-looking seals,” was what she said.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I don’t care to undertake the herding of one of those harems,” I objected.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I nodded my head and proceeded to make a flank attack on the nearest harem.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Here the seals hauled out, and the old bulls guarded their harems, while the young bulls hauled out by themselves.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He swam directly to the beach and clambered out into a small opening between two harems, the masters of which made warning noises but did not attack him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)