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PERI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does peri mean?
• PERI (noun)
The noun PERI has 2 senses:
1. a beautiful and graceful girl
2. (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
Familiarity information: PERI used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A beautiful and graceful girl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("peri" is a kind of...):
fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("peri" is a kind of...):
disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)
Domain category:
folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)
Domain region:
Persia; Persian Empire (an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC)
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