Usually means: Express contentment sound by cats.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pur: Merriam-Webster
  2. pur-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Pur, pur: Wordnik
  4. pur: Wiktionary
  5. pur: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Pur: Dictionary.com
  7. PUR, Pur (Vedic), Pur (band), Pur (brand), Pur (placename element), Pur, -pur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Pur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Pur, pur, pur(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. PUR: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. pur: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Pur: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Pur: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Pur: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pur-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PUR: Acronym Finder
  2. PUR: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (PUR)

noun:  Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”). [The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented.]
verb:  Dated form of purr [(intransitive, of a cat) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented.]
noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyurethane. [(organic chemistry) Any of various polymeric resins containing urethane links; used in very many industrial and domestic applications.]
noun:  (broadcasting) Initialism of person using radio.

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