concubine

noun

con·cu·bine ˈkäŋ-kyu̇-ˌbīn

ˈkän-,

-kyü-

Synonyms of concubine next

: a woman with whom a man cohabits without being married: such as

: one having a recognized social status in a household below that of a wife

: mistress sense 4a

Examples of concubine in a Sentence

the offspring of one of the monarch's concubines

Recent Examples on the Web On an Indonesian island in 1900, Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan and his wife Agathe are at the top of the food chain, until Jan, after returning from his nightly visit to his concubine Siti, drops dead. —

Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023 Until Jan upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine Siti, suddenly drops dead. —

Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023 That is, until Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine, Siti (Hayati Azis), suddenly drops dead in front of his wife. —

Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023 That is, until Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine, Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife. —

Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2023 The young women entered Kalinago society as their captor’s concubine or his wife’s servant. —

Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017 These were the same men, many whose statutes adorn the town squares, that reduced the Black mammy’s sons to ashes and their daughters to concubines under the system of Jim Crow. —

Dr. Robert O. White Ii, al, 26 Jan. 2023 Men might take Makú women as concubines but would never consider marrying one. —

Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017 Griffin asked the woman to be his concubine, or second wife, the police document states. —

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