| NOUN | person | fancy woman, prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street | a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money |
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| person | fancy woman, mistress, kept woman | an adulterous / adulterous woman |
| Meaning | A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money. | |
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| Synonyms | prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street | |
| Narrower | 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 | |
| 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) |
| Spanish | alcahueta, fulana, golfa, meretriz, mujer pública, prostituta, puta, ramera, zorra | |
| Catalan | dona de la vida, dona pública, meretriu, prostituta, puta | |
| Meaning | An adulterous / adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man. | |
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| Synonyms | mistress, kept woman | |
| Instances | 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 | |
| Narrower | concubine, courtesan, doxy, paramour | A woman who cohabits with an important man |
| Broader | lover | A significant other to whom you are not related by marriage |
| woman, adult female | An adult female person (as opposed to a man) | |
| Spanish | amante, amiga, entretenida, manceba, querida | |
| Catalan | amant, amiga, amistançada, mantinguda | |
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