prostitute

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹɒstɪˌtjuːt/|[ˈpɹɒstɪtʰjuːt]    美 /ˈpɹɑstɪˌtu(ː)t/|[ˈpɹɑstɪˌtʰu(ː)t]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
  2. A woman who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
    — 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), […]
  3. 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.
    — Kai Wen: Why not? You're nothing but a prostitute. / Vicky: How dare you call me a prostitute!
动词 v.
  1. To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money. reflexive,transitive
    — Do not prostitute thy daughter.
  2. To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes. derogatory,transitive
    — [T]heſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.
形容词 adj.
  1. Debased, corrupt; seeking personal gain by dishonourable means. obsolete
    — [H]e speaks a languages that merits not reply, and which can only excite contempt for his prostitute principles, or pity for his ignorance.
  2. Taking part in promiscuous sexual activity, licentious; (later, chiefly as attributive use of noun) that is a prostitute.
    — 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.
  3. Exposed, subjected (to something shameful). obsolete
    — [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, […]

词形变化

more prostitute comparative most prostitute superlative prostitutes plural prostitutes present,singular,third-person prostituting participle,present prostituted participle,past prostituted past

词汇关系

近义词
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
反义词
convertite Magdalene Magdalen nonprostitute
上位词
sexual partner
下位词
asswhore auletris bodyworker bottom bitch call girl carton girl courtesan fireship gigolo grande horizontale hetæra hetaera hetaira homowhore outlaw pan-pan pitcher-bawd prostibot rock whore spinner stale streetwalker streetworker white slave
衍生词
antiprostitute biostitute intellectual prostitute lacrosstitute nonprostitute presstitute proselytute prostibot prostitot Rastitute sorostitute temple prostitute prostitutable prostitutor unprostituted
相关词
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
并列词
business boy butcher boy callboy he-whore man ho manwhore moneyboy party boy piece of ass rent boy Hollywood hustler Rastitute rent-a-dread sanky sanky-panky

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
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”).
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