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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats