prostitute

³prostitute

noun

Definition of PROSTITUTE

1

a : a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual intercourse especially for money : whore b : a male who engages in sexual and especially homosexual practices for money

2

: a person (as a writer or painter) who deliberately debases his or her talents (as for money)

Examples of PROSTITUTE

1. <the town was horrified to discover that she had once been a prostitute>

First Known Use of PROSTITUTE

1613

Related to PROSTITUTE

Synonyms: bawd, call girl, cocotte, courtesan, drab, harlot, hooker, hustler, sex worker, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, whore, woman of the street

Related Words: madam, madame; white slave; bimbo [slang], chippie (also chippy), doxy (also doxie), floozy (or floozie), tramp; bitch, hussy, jade, minx; coquette, flirt, libertine, siren, tempter, temptress, vamp, wench

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