prostitute
Plural: prostitutes
Noun
- a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
- Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
- A woman who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
- A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage.
Verb
- sell one's body; exchange sex for money
- To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money.
- To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes.
Adj
- Debased, corrupt; seeking personal gain by dishonourable means.
- Taking part in promiscuous sexual activity, licentious; (later, chiefly as attributive use of noun) that is a prostitute.
- Exposed, subjected (to something shameful).
Origin / Etymology
From Latin prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituō, from prō̆ (“for, before”) + statuō (“to set up, to erect”).
Synonyms
bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl, 'ho, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, Dutch widow, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, KTV girl, Paphian, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, hackney, hireling, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, painted lady, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimp, pimp out, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitute oneself, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sell one's body, sell out, sellout, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, turn tricks, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the town
Antonyms
Magdalen, Magdalene, convertite, nonprostitute
Scrabble Score: 12
prostitute: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordprostitute: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prostitute: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary