Wikisaurus:prostitute

WIKISAURUS

prostitute

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English

Noun

Sense: person who performs sexual acts for payment

Synonyms

• prostitute
• business girl
• call girl
• comfort woman
• comfort girl
• courtesan
• drab (archaic)
• escort
• harlot (dated)
• hoe
• hooker (US)
• lady of light virtue
• lady of the night
• moll (Australia)
• rent boy (Australia)
• tom (UK)
• trollop
• sex worker (Australia)
• streetwalker
• strumpet (archaic)
• whore
• working girl

Hypernyms

• sexual partner    [WS]

Hyponyms

• gigolo

Related terms

• on the game
• oldest profession

See also

• Wikisaurus:promiscuous woman
• Wikisaurus:promiscuous man

External links

• “prostitute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “prostitute” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.