kept woman

Questions about kept woman

What does kept woman mean?

kept woman means "an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man".

What is another word for kept woman?

Close synonyms include mistress, fancy woman. 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 kept woman a common word?

kept 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.