Prostitute
English
Noun
Prostitute (plural Prostitutes)- A person who performs sexual activity for payment
- A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
- A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour
Verb
Prostitute (third-person singular simple present Prostitutes, present participle prostituting, simple past and past participle prostituted)
- (transitive, usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money
- (transitive) To make another person, or organization, prostitute themselves.
- (transitive) To use one's talents in return for money or fame
Thesaurus
abuse, adulterate, alloy, bawd, befoul, bimbo, brass, call girl, canker, catamite, cheapen, chippy, coarsen, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt, courtesan, cruiser, daughter of joy, debase, debauch, defalcate, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demean, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, divert, drab, embezzle, erring sister, fallen, foul, harlot, hooker, hustler, hustling, infect, loose woman, lower, meretricious, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, moll, nightwalker, on the, on the town, painted woman, pander, pave, peculate, pervert, pickup, pilfer, pimp, poison, pollute, poule, pro, procure, profane, prostituted, quean, ravage, ravish, scarlet, scarlet woman, sell out, stew, streetwalker, strumpet, taint, tart, tomato, trollop, trull, twist, ulcerate, unfortunate woman, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, white slave, whore, whorish, working girl
Synonyms
- (person who performs sexual activity for payment): see WikiSaurus:prostitute
- (person perceived as engaging in sexual activity): see WikiSaurus:promiscuous woman, WikiSaurus:promiscuous man
- (person who does an activity for money): sell out
