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anderoon

anderoon is the obsolete form of anderun.

Meaning of anderun

Noun

anderun (plural anderuns)

  1. (historical) The harem of the royal household of the shah of Persia.
    • For instance, one day she arranged for me to sneak into the palace anderun, not for our nighttime frolic, but in the afternoon, […]2010, Gary Jennings, The Journeyer

Forms of anderoon

pluralanderoons

Questions about anderoon

What is anderoon the obsolete form of?
Anderoon is the obsolete form of anderun.

Words near anderoon in the dictionary

  1. Anderles
  2. Andermann syndrome
  3. Andermas
  4. Andermatt
  5. Andernach
  6. anderoon
  7. anderoons
  8. Anders
  9. Andersen
  10. Andersen disease
  11. Andersen syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anderoon (page history and authors); anderun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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