'Prostitute' definitions:
Definition of 'prostitute'
From: WordNet
noun
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn: prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
verb
Sell one's body; exchange sex for money
Definition of 'Prostitute'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Prostitute'
From: GCIDE
- Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, a. [L. prostitutus, p. p.] Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes. [1913 Webster]
- Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread. --Prior [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Prostitute'
From: GCIDE
- Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, n. [L. prostituta.]
- 1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. [1913 Webster]
- No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prostitute'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- adulterate,
- alloy,
- B-girl,
- bawd,
- befoul,
- bimbo,
- brass,
- call girl,
- canker,
- catamite,
- cheapen,
- chippy,
- coarsen,
- cocotte,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- convert,
- corrupt,
- courtesan,
- cruiser,
- Cyprian,
- 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,
- Paphian,
- 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