Associations to the word «Purim»

Wiktionary

PURIM, proper noun. (Judaism) A Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a massacre.

Dictionary definition

PURIM, noun. (Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne