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Webster Dictionary

  1. Barmecidenoun

    one who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Barmecide

    bär′me-sīd, n. one who offers an imaginary or pretended banquet or other benefit.—adjs. Bar′mecide, Barmecī′dal. [From a story in the Arabian Nights, in which a beggar is entertained to an imaginary feast by one of the Barmecides, a Persian family who attained to great influence at the court of the Abbasside caliphs.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of barmecide in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of barmecide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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