brothel keeper

1. 1.

   a woman who runs a house of prostitution

   Synonymsmadam

   Broaderbusinesswoman

Questions about brothel keeper

What does brothel keeper mean?

brothel keeper means "a woman who runs a house of prostitution".

What is another word for brothel keeper?

Close synonyms include madam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brothel keeper a common word?

brothel keeper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.