/pjʊə/
#1764 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
Not mixed with anything else; completely clean and natural.
Word origin
From Latin purus meaning clean and unmixed.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- purus
- English cognates
- purify, purity
Examples
.
Here it means nothing dirty is in the water.
cotton.
Here it means only cotton, with nothing else mixed in.
.
Here it means only luck and nothing more.
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