PROSTITUTE
Dictionary entry overview: What does prostitute mean?
• PROSTITUTE (noun)
The noun PROSTITUTE has 1 sense:
1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Familiarity information: PROSTITUTE used as a noun is very rare.
• PROSTITUTE (verb)
The verb PROSTITUTE has 1 sense:
1. sell one's body; exchange sex for money
Familiarity information: PROSTITUTE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROSTITUTE (noun)
Meaning:
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bawd; woman of the street; whore; tart; sporting lady; prostitute; lady of pleasure; harlot; fancy woman; cyprian; cocotte; working girl
Hypernyms ("prostitute" 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 "prostitute"):
call girl (a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone)
camp follower (a prostitute who provides service to military personnel)
comfort woman; ianfu (a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II)
demimondaine (a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society)
floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)
white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)
• PROSTITUTE (verb)
Meaning:
Sell one's body; exchange sex for money
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "prostitute" is one way to...):
sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prostitute"):
street-walk; streetwalk (walk the streets in search of customers)
Sentence frames:
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