COURTESAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who cohabits with an important man

Synonyms:

concubine; courtesan; doxy; paramour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("courtesan" is a kind of...):

fancy woman; kept woman; mistress (an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "courtesan"):

odalisque (a woman slave in a harem)

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