KEPT WOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kept woman mean? 

• KEPT WOMAN (noun)
  The noun KEPT WOMAN has 1 sense:

1. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

  Familiarity information: KEPT WOMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEPT WOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fancy woman; kept woman; mistress

Hypernyms ("kept woman" is a kind of...):

lover (a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage)

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kept woman"):

concubine; courtesan; doxy; paramour (a woman who cohabits with an important man)

Instance hyponyms:

Braun; Eva Braun (the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945))

Delilah ((Old Testament) the Philistine mistress of Samson who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength)