Prostitute

Noun

 * 1) A person who performs sexual activity for payment
 * 2) A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
 * 3) A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour

Synonyms

 * : see WikiSaurus:prostitute
 * : see WikiSaurus:promiscuous woman, WikiSaurus:promiscuous man
 * : sell out

Verb

 * 1)  To perform sexual activity for money
 * 2)  To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
 * 3)  To use one's talents in return for money or fame

Related terms

 * prostitution
 * male prostitute

Thesaurus
B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, abuse, adulterate, alloy, bawd, befoul, bimbo, brass, call girl, canker, catamite, cheapen, chippy, coarsen, cocotte, 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, 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, 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

Etymology

 * From Latin prostitutum, past participle of prostituere, from prefix pro-, "for" or "before", + statuere (turns into -stituere with prefixes appended), "to set up or erect".

Noun

 * Afrikaans: prostituut
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: պոռնիկ (poŕnik), պոռնկուհի (poŕnkuhi), մարմնավաճառուհի,
 * Breton:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (female; formal), 妓男 (male; formal),,  (female; slang), ,  (male; slang), 雞婆, 鸡婆 , 娼妓 , 風塵女, 风尘女
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: prostituee,
 * Estonian: prostituut,
 * Ewe: ahasi, gbolo
 * Finnish:, (female),
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, πόρνος,
 * Ancient: ,
 * Hebrew:, ג׳יגולו
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, or örömlány
 * Ido: prostituco
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 매춘부,, ,


 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian: prostitutė
 * Luhya: ,
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:, prostitut, qaħba, ġerrej
 * Maori: kairau
 * Nahuatl: ahuiyani
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: prostituta
 * Old English:, ,
 * Papiamentu: mohé di bida
 * Polish:, męska prostytutka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: prostituată,, târfă
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: siùrsach, strìopach
 * Slovak: prostitútka,, cundra
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: (nc 9/10),, , ,
 * Swedish: prostituerad,
 * Telugu: వేశ్య
 * Thai: (sŏh-pây-nee)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Volapük: prostitan,  hiprostitan,  jiprostitan,  nepuedan,  hinepuedan,  jinepuedan
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * Finnish: myydä itseään, (degrading) huorata
 * German: sich prostituieren
 * Greek: εκπορνεύομαι


 * Hungarian: prostituál
 * Macedonian: се проституира, се курва
 * Swahili: ukahaba


 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: εκπορνεύω


 * Macedonian: проституира
 * Swahili: ukahaba

Noun
prostitute