Found 3 items, similar to Prostitute.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: prostitute
cabo, pelacur
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: prostitute
prostitute
n : a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
cocotte,
whore,
harlot,
bawd,
tart,
cyprian,
fancy woman
,
working girl,
sporting lady,
lady of pleasure
,
woman of the street]
v : sell one's body; exchange sex for money
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Prostitute
Prostitute
\Pros"ti*tute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Prostituted; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Prostituting.] [L. prostitutus, p. p. of
prostituere to prostitute; pro before, forth + statuere to
put, place. See
Statute.]
1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to
lewdness for hire.
“Do not prostitute thy daughter.”
--Lev. xix. 29.
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2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low
or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to
prostitute official powers. --Milton.
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Prostitute
\Pros"ti*tute\, a. [L. prostitutus, p. p.]
Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous
purposes.
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Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread. --Prior
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Prostitute
\Pros"ti*tute\, n. [L. prostituta.]
1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a
harlot.
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2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to
infamous employments for hire.
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No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. --Pope.
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