Prostitute
['prɒstɪtjuːt] or ['prɑstətut]
Definition
(noun.) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.
(verb.) sell one's body; exchange sex for money.
Editor: Wilma--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
(v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
(a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
(n.) A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
(n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
Typist: Winfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Misuse, abuse, misapply, pervert, make a bad use of.
n. Courtesan, STRUMPET.
Typed by Claire
Definition
v.t. to expose for sale for bad ends: to sell to lewdness: to devote to any improper purpose.—adj. openly devoted to lewdness: sold to wickedness.—n. a female who indulges in lewdness esp. for hire a whore: a base hireling.—ns. Prostitū′tion the act or practice of prostituting: lewdness for hire: the being devoted to infamous purposes; Pros′titūtor one who prostitutes either himself or another.
Typed by Aileen
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are in the company of a prostitute, denotes that you will incur the righteous scorn of friends for some ill-mannered conduct. For a young woman to dream of a prostitute, foretells that she will deceive her lover as to her purity or candor. This dream to a married woman brings suspicion of her husband and consequent quarrels. See Harlot.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- The Commissioners had a good deal of sympathy for the prostitute's condition, but for that lust in the hearts of men, and women we may add, for that, they had no sympathetic understanding. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It would be interesting to know how much of the social conscience of our time had as its first insight the prostitute on the city pavement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One of those causes is, I suppose, adultery with a prostitute. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The common prostitute rarely has any offspring. Plato. The Republic.
- They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Evidently not: it is more reasonable and practical to keep park benches out of the shadows and to plague unescorted prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One way presumably is that divorced women often become prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet these 1012 women are only about one-fifth of the professional prostitutes in Chicago. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At the very outset the report confesses that an accurate count of the number of prostitutes in Chicago could not be reached. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Accordingly, he filled those places with such as prostituted their professions to his notions of prerogative. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Edited by Janet