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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A prostitute.
  2. n. A person considered sexually promiscuous.
  3. n. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.
  4. v. To associate or have sexual relations with prostitutes or a prostitute.
  5. v. To accept payment in exchange for sexual relations.
  6. v. To compromise one's principles for personal gain.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot; a courtezan; a strumpet; hence, in abuse, any unchaste woman; an adulteress or fornicatress.
  2. To prostitute one's body for hire; in general, to practise lewdness.
  3. To corrupt by lewd intercourse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A prostitute.
  2. n. A person who is considered to be sexually promiscuous (see also: slut).
  3. n. A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
  4. v. : To prostitute oneself.
  5. v. : To engage the services of a prostitute.
  6. v. : To pimp; to pander.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
  2. v. To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
  3. v. To worship false and impure gods.
  4. v. To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. compromise oneself for money or other gains
  2. v. work as a prostitute
  3. v. have unlawful sex with a whore
  4. n. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Etymologies

  1. Middle English hore, from Old English hōre; see kā- in Indo-European roots.

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  • erinoftheyear What's so bad about a whore? Someone's got to pay the bills. Aug 15, 2007

  • brtom Ah, bless your heart, for a sweet, pleasant—damn’d mischievous son of a whore.
    Goldsmith, She Stoops, I Jan 8, 2007

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