prostitute
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Italic *status
Proto-Italic *statuō
Latin statuō
Latin prōstituō
Latin prōstitūtusder.
English prostitute
From Latin prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituō, from prō̆ (“for, before”) + statuō (“to set up, to erect”).
Base: prō̆
Inflected forms:
form: more prostitute
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prostitute
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prostitutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prostitutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prostituting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prostituted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prostituted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Debased, corrupt; seeking personal gain by dishonourable means.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: [H]e speaks a languages that merits not reply, and which can only excite contempt for his prostitute principles, or pity for his ignorance.
gloss: Taking part in promiscuous sexual activity, licentious; (later, chiefly as attributive use of noun) that is a prostitute.
pos: adj
examples: They rightly say that attacks against prostitute women are common and that it's only when five are murdered in one place that it starts to provoke debate.
gloss: Exposed, subjected (to something shameful).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: [A]nd novv at length all men of all Nations, not only Philoſophers, but even the vulgar, have, and doe ſtill deale vvith this [the subject of the book] as a matter of eaſe, expoſed and proſtitute to every Mother-vvit, and to be attained vvithout any great care or ſtudy, […]
gloss: Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
pos: noun
examples: Unfortunately, there is to my knowledge no visual evidence for the dress of the Roman prostitute, but the literary sources present us with a range of prostitute clothing (from rich accoutrements all the way down to nothing), […]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Kai Wen: Why not? You're nothing but a prostitute. / Vicky: How dare you call me a prostitute!
Madonna would do anything for money, you know, she's a total prostitute. And I've got nothing against prostitutes.
gloss: To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
transitive
examples: Do not prostitute thy daughter.
gloss: To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
transitive
examples: [T]heſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.
Synonyms: abandons
alley cat
almah
bangtail
Bankside lady
bargirl
bat
beotch
blouze
blowen
blowsabella
brass nail
brasser
brass
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
daughter of joy
dollymop
doxy
drab
Dutch widow
escort
fille de joie
flap
floozie
fornicatrix
frail sister
Fulham virgin
gamester
gay lady
geebag
gillian
gill
girl rented overnight
good-time girl
GRO
hackney
harlot
Haymarket ware
hireling
'ho
hoer
hoe
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 pavé
nymph of the pavement
painted lady
Paphian
party girl
pavement princess
perdita
pimpette
pretty horsebreaker
priestess of Venus
pro skirt
prossie
prossy
pross
prostie
prostitute
prostitutor
prosty
prozzie
prozzy
pro
public woman
pucelle
puella publica
pug
punk
pussygirl
puta
put
quail
quean
quene
quiff
ribibe
scrubber
sex labourer
sex worker
skainsmate
skivvy
slag
slapper
slit
slut
sodomitess
soiled dove
stem siren
stew
street taco
strumpet
succubus
Suzi Wong
Suzie Wong
Suzy Wong
tart
tawaif
thotty
thot
tib
tom
treddle
trick turner
trollop
trug
trull
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
turn tricks
Antonyms: convertite
Magdalene
Magdalen
nonprostitute
Related words: unorthodox entrepreneur
abandoned habits
balum rancum
calling card
call
fuckie suckie
fuckie-suckie
half and half
incall
john school
kerb crawling
Magdalene asylum
Magdalene laundry
Murphy game
oldest profession
outcall
sex tourism
spinning house
tart card
whoremongery
yellow ticket
on the game
abbess
Covent Garden abbess
lady abbess
madam
pimp
apple-squire
applesquire
pander
panderer
ponce
procurer
prostitute oneself
pimp out
promiscuous woman
promiscuous man
prostitute's client
vamp
prostitution
Derived words: antiprostitute
biostitute
intellectual prostitute
lacrosstitute
nonprostitute
presstitute
proselytute
prostibot
prostitot
Rastitute
sorostitute
temple prostitute
prostitutable
prostitutor
unprostituted
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