comfort woman

1. 1.

   a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II

   “she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman”

   Synonymsianfu

   Broaderprostitute

Questions about comfort woman

What does comfort woman mean?

comfort woman means "a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II".

What is another word for comfort woman?

Close synonyms include ianfu. 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 comfort woman a common word?

comfort woman 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.