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Definition of: Purim
(pr′im, pyr′im; Hebrew p·rēm′)
A Jewish festival commemorating the defeat of Haman's plot to massacre the Jews (Esth. ix 26), observed about the first of March. [<Hebrew pūrīm, plural of pūr a lot]
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