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pure^¹

/ˈpjʊə/ UK
/ˈpjɔː/ UK
/ˈpjɵː/ British, Southern, Standard
/ˈpjoː/ British, Southern, Standard
/ˈpjɜː/
/ˈpjuː.ə/ Northern England, sometimes
/ˈpɪʊ.ə/ Wales
/ˈpjʉː.ə/ Australia, New Zealand
/ˈpjoː/ Australia, New Zealand
/ˈpjʊɚ/ Canada, US
/ˈpjoɹ/ Canada, US
/ˈpjɝ/ Canada, US
/ˈpjʉɾ/ Scotland
[ˈpjʉːɾ] Scotland
/ˈpjuːɻ/ Ireland

Rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).

adjective purer · more pure · purest · most pure

Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
Free of foreign material or pollutants. A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.
Mere; that and that only. That idea is pure madness!
Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science. The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
Having no side effects. a pure method
slang A lot of. Well when ah's youngah, ah'd just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...

adverb

Scotland, not comparable to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. You’re pure busy.

verb pures · puring · pured

To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately. Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
obsolete, transitive To cleanse; to refine.

noun pures

countable, uncountable One who, or that which, is pure. ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.

pure^²

/pjʊə/ UK
/pjʊɹ/ US

Rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ)

noun

alternative, uncountable Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”).puer […] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.

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