Harlot

Quick meaning: Harlot is a noun meaning (derogatory, offensive, dated) A female prostitute.

Meaning

(derogatory, offensive, dated) A female prostitute.

More Meanings

1. (derogatory, offensive) A female who is considered promiscuous.
2. (intransitive) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.
3. (now uncommon) Wanton; lewd; low; base.
4. (obsolete) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.

Example Sentences

By suche ydle and wicked harlottes the enheritaunce of Christe is troden vnder fote.

This day (great Duke) ſhe ſhut the doores vpon me, / While she with Harlots feaſted in my housſe.

He was stopped by a painted harlot, who put her hand on his arm; he pushed her violently away with brutal words.

The bastard of a harlot, born in a brothel, suckled on gin, and familiar from earliest infancy with all the bestialities of debauch,[…]

Word Forms

• harlots
• harloting
• harlotting
• harloted
• harlotted

Synonyms for harlot

Depending on context, synonyms include abandons, almah, bangtail, bargirl, bat, beotch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include whore, prostitute, trollop, tart, cocotte, hooker.

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