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Word Meanings - WHORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Wyclif. Syn. -- Harlot; courtesan; prostitute; strumpet. (more info) OHG. huora, huorra, Icel. h, Dan. hore, Sw.

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A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Wyclif. Syn. -- Harlot; courtesan; prostitute; strumpet. (more info) OHG. huora, huorra, Icel. h, Dan. hore, Sw. hora, Goth. h an adulterer, AS. h adultery, OHG. huor, and probably to L. carus dear.

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  • PROSTITUTE
    1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot. 2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. Pope.
  • WOMANLY
    Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
  • COURTESAN
    A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
  • WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
    Womanhood. Chaucer.
  • COURTESANSHIP
    Harlotry.
  • UNLAWFUL
    Not lawful; contrary to law. -- Un*law"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*law"ful*ness, n. Unlawful assembly. See under Assembly.
  • WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
    An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
  • SEXUALLY
    In a sexual manner or relation.
  • ESPECIALLY
    In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
  • WOMANHOOD
    1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
  • WOMANIZE
    To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
  • HARLOTIZE
    To harlot. Warner.
  • WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
    A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
  • WOMANLIKE
    Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.
  • WOMANLESS
    Without a woman or women.
  • HARLOTRY
    1. Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story. Piers Plowman. Chaucer. 2. The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. Dryden. 3. Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art. 4. A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage. He sups to-night
  • SEXUALITY
    The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.
  • HARLOT
    1. A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chaucer. 2. A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal. Chaucer. 3. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute;
  • WOMAN
    1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.
  • COMMERCE
    1. The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive
  • AIRWOMAN
    A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
  • ENGLISHWOMAN
    Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
  • ASEXUALIZATION
    The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
  • ASEXUALLY
    In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
  • UNWOMAN
    To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
  • NOBLEWOMAN
    A female of noble rank; a peeress.
  • BONDSWOMAN
    See BONDWOMAN
  • NEEDLEWOMAN
    A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
  • DAIRYWOMAN
    A woman who attends to a dairy.
  • GENTLEWOMAN
    1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
  • HERDSWOMAN
    A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott.
  • SALESWOMAN
    A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • STRUMPET
    A prostitute; a harlot. Shak. (more info) debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch, stuprum
  • CHARWOMAN
    A woman hired for odd work or for single days.

 

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