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Definition of Harlot
1. Noun. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.
Specialized synonyms: Call Girl, Camp Follower, Comfort Woman, Ianfu, Demimondaine, Floozie, Floozy, Hooker, Hustler, Slattern, Street Girl, Streetwalker, White Slave
Generic synonyms: Adult Female, Woman
Derivative terms: Bawdy, Prostitute, Whore, Whore, Whoredom
Definition of Harlot
1. n. A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.
2. a. Wanton; lewd; low; base.
3. v. i. To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.
Definition of Harlot
1. Noun. (derogatory) a female prostitute ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Harlot
1. a prostitute [n -S]
Medical Definition of Harlot
1. 1. A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. "He was a gentle harlot and a kind." (Chaucer) 2. A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal. 3. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet. Origin: OE.harlot, herlot, a vagabond, OF. Harlot, herlot, arlot; cf. Pr. Arlot, Sp. Arlote, It. Arlotto; of uncertain origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harlot
Literary usage of Harlot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"Thy wife ¡hall be an harlot 13. your daughters shall commit whoredom, HAL. ...
1:21. the faithful city become an harlot 1 23:15.shall Tyre sing as an harlot ..."
2. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873)
"By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had
received ... "Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, ..."
3. The Paradise Or Garden of the Holy Fathers: Being Histories of the by Athanasius, Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, ʻAnân-Îshôʻ (1907)
"... and he made supplication before God that she might repent and live, and God
hearkened unto him. And the harlot stood up in fear by the side of ..."
4. A Collection of Seventy-nine Black-letter Ballads and Broadsides, Printed in by Joseph Lilly, George Daniel, Henry Huth (1867)
"I praye for yov fower." The King. " I defende yov fower." The harlot. ... The king
that rules, the lawyer in the hall, The harlot and the countrey ..."
5. Isaiah: a New Translation: With a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes by Robert Lowth (1815)
"16 Take the lyre, go about the city, O harlot long forgotten; Strike the lyre
artfully; multiply the song; that thou mayest again be remembered. ..."
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