woman of the street

Questions about woman of the street

What does woman of the street mean?

woman of the street means "a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money".

What is another word for woman of the street?

Close synonyms include prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd. 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 woman of the street a common word?

woman of the street 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.