Prostitute

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "prostitute":
     B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, abuse, adulterate, alloy, bawd, befoul,
     bimbo, brass, call girl, canker, catamite, cheapen, chippy,
     coarsen, cocotte, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt,
     courtesan, cruiser, daughter of joy, debase, debauch, defalcate,
     defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demean, denature, deprave,
     desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, divert, drab, embezzle,
     erring sister, fallen, fallen woman, fille de joie, foul, harlot,
     hetaera, hooker, hustler, hustling, infect, loose woman, lower,
     maladminister, meretricious, meretrix, misapply, misappropriate,
     misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, moll, nightwalker, on the,
     on the town, painted woman, pander, pave, peculate, pervert,
     pickup, pilfer, pimp, poison, pollute, poule, pro, procure,
     profane, prostituted, quean, ravage, ravish, scarlet,
     scarlet woman, sell out, stew, streetwalker, streetwalking,
     strumpet, taint, tart, tomato, trollop, trull, twist, ulcerate,
     unfortunate woman, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, white slave,
     whore, whorish, working girl