Seraglio vs. Harem

Seraglionoun

The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.

Seraglionoun

A palace of a sultan.

Seraglionoun

A profligate or decadent residence of a rich person.

Seraglionoun

The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.

Seraglionoun

A brothel or place of debauchery.

Seraglionoun

An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.

Seraglionoun

An inclosure; a place of separation.

Seraglionoun

The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.

Seraglionoun

A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.

Seraglionoun

living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

Seraglio

A seraglio ( sə-RAL-yoh or sə-RAHL-yoh) or serail is the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in an Ottoman household. The term harem is a generic term for domestic spaces reserved for women in a Muslim family, which can also refer to the women themselves.

Haremnoun

The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers.

Haremnoun

A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.

Haremnoun

A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals.

Haremnoun

(slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.

Haremnoun

(uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.

Haremnoun

The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

Haremnoun

The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.

Haremnoun

living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

Harem

Harem (Arabic: حريم‎ ḥarīm, ) properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. This private space has been traditionally understood as serving the purposes of maintaining the modesty, privilege, and seclusion of women from other men.