prostitute

1. 1.

   sell one's body; exchange sex for money

   Broadersell

   Narrowerstreet-walk

Other forms of prostitute

plural

prostitutes·

past tense

prostituted·

present participle

prostituting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prostitute

What does prostitute mean?

prostitute means "a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prostitute?

prostitute has 3 syllables: pro-sti-tute. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɑstəˌtut/.

What is another word for prostitute?

Close synonyms include cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart. 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 prostitute a common word?

prostitute is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with prostitute?

7 words rhyme with prostitute. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.