English > whore: 4 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money. |
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| Synonyms | prostitute, cocotte, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street |
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| Narrower | call girl | A female prostitute who can be hired by telephone |
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| 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 |
| streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern | A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets |
| white slave | A woman sold into prostitution |
| Broader | woman, adult female | An adult female person (as opposed to a man) |
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| Spanish | alcahueta, fulana, golfa, meretriz, mujer pública, prostituta, puta, ramera, zorra |
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| Catalan | dona de la vida, dona pública, meretriu, prostituta, puta |
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| Nouns | whoredom | offering sexual intercourse for pay |
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| Verbs | whore | have unlawful / unlawful sex with a whore |
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| whore | work as a prostitute |
