noun
a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
• Syn:
↑prostitute, ↑cocotte, ↑whore, ↑harlot, ↑bawd, ↑tart, ↑cyprian, ↑fancy woman, ↑working girl, ↑sporting lady, ↑lady of pleasure
• Derivationally related forms: ↑bawdy (for: ↑bawd), ↑whoredom (for: ↑whore), ↑whore (for: ↑whore), ↑prostitute (for: ↑prostitute)
• Hypernyms: ↑woman, ↑adult female
• Hyponyms:
↑call girl, ↑camp follower, ↑comfort woman, ↑ianfu, ↑demimondaine, ↑streetwalker, ↑street girl, ↑hooker, ↑hustler, ↑floozy, ↑floozie, ↑slattern, ↑white slave
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or woman of the streets* * *
woman of the street,
a prostitute, especially a streetwalker.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.