noun
1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
• Syn:
↑prostitute, ↑cocotte, ↑whore, ↑harlot, ↑bawd, ↑tart, ↑cyprian, ↑working girl, ↑sporting lady, ↑lady of pleasure, ↑woman of the street
• 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
2. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
• Syn: ↑mistress, ↑kept woman
• Hypernyms: ↑woman, ↑adult female, ↑lover
Useful english dictionary. 2012.