HOURI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does houri mean? 

• HOURI (noun)
  The noun HOURI has 2 senses:

1. a voluptuously beautiful young woman

2. (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise

  Familiarity information: HOURI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOURI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A voluptuously beautiful young woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

houri; nymph

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

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Islam; Islamism; Mohammedanism; Muhammadanism; Muslimism (the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran)

 Context examples 

"Is she original? Is she piquant? I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle- eyes, houri forms, and all!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)