Definition of PROSTITUTE

prostitute

Meanings

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

'ho, abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, bawd, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, cyprian, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, escort, fancy woman, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, Fulham virgin, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hireling, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, KTV girl, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, 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, Paphian, 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, sporting lady, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, turn tricks, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl

Antonyms

convertite, Magdalen, Magdalene, nonprostitute

Scrabble Score: 12

prostitute is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
prostitute is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prostitute is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

prostitute is a valid Words With Friends word