Usually means: Polygamous household, typically one man.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. harem: Merriam-Webster
  2. harem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harem: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harem: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harem, harem: Wordnik
  7. harem: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. harem: Wiktionary
  9. harem: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harem: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harem: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Harem, harem: Dictionary.com
  13. harem: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. harem: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Harem (TV Show), Harem (TV series), Harem (album), Harem (biology), Harem (disambiguation), Harem (film), Harem (genre), Harem (novella), Harem (song), Harem (zoology), Harem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Harem: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. harem: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. harem: Rhymezone
  19. Harem: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. harem: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. harem: FreeDictionary.org
  22. harem: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. harem: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. harem: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. harem: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Harem (household), harem: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  3. HAREM: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Harem: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Harem: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The private section of an Muslim household forbidden to male strangers.
noun:  A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
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 (including elephant seals), sea lions, and baboons.
noun:  (ornithology) A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
noun:  (slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
noun:  (uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.

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