Usually means: Free from any contaminating substances.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word pure:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. pure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pure: Merriam-Webster
  3. pure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pure: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pure: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pure, Pure, pure, pure, pure: Wordnik
  8. pure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pure: Wiktionary
  10. pure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pure: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pure: Dictionary.com
  14. pure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Pure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pure: Rhymezone
  20. pure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pure: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. pure: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. pure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. pure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  28. pure: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pure: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Pure (album), Pure (film), pure: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pure (album), Pure (film), pure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pure (album), Pure (film), pure: Medical dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PURE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. pure: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pure, pure, pure: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pure: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See pureing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
adjective:  Free of foreign material or pollutants.
adjective:  Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
adjective:  Mere; that and that only.
adjective:  (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
adjective:  (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
adjective:  (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
adjective:  (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
adverb:  (Liverpool, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
verb:  (golf) To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.
noun:  One who, or that which, is pure.
noun:  Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”) [(chiefly historical) Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins.]

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