FANCY WOMAN

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• FANCY WOMAN (noun)
  The noun FANCY WOMAN has 2 senses:

1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
2. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

  Familiarity information: FANCY WOMAN used as a noun is rare.

• FANCY WOMAN (noun)

Meaning:

A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

woman of the street; whore; tart; sporting lady; prostitute; lady of pleasure; harlot; fancy woman; cyprian; cocotte; bawd; working girl

Hypernyms ("fancy woman" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fancy woman"):

floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)

demimondaine (a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society)

comfort woman; ianfu (a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II)

camp follower (a prostitute who provides service to military personnel)

call girl (a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone)

white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)

Meaning:

An adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

kept woman; mistress; fancy woman

Hypernyms ("fancy woman" is a kind of...):

lover (a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage)

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fancy woman"):

chachka; tchotchke ((Yiddish) a mistress)

concubine; courtesan; doxy; odalisque; paramour (a woman who cohabits with an important man)

Instance hyponyms:

Braun; Eva Braun (the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945))

Delilah ((Old Testament) the Philistine mistress of Samson who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength)