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PROSTITUTE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Synonyms:

bawd; cocotte; cyprian; fancy woman; harlot; lady of pleasure; prostitute; sporting lady; tart; whore; woman of the street; working girl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

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

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 female prostitute)

floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)

white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)

Derivation:

prostitute (sell one's body; exchange sex for money)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell one's body; exchange sex for money

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "prostitute" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prostitute"):

street-walk; streetwalk (walk the streets in search of customers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

prostitute (a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money)

prostitution (offering sexual intercourse for pay)

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