WHORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whore mean? 

• WHORE (noun)
  The noun WHORE has 1 sense:

1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

  Familiarity information: WHORE used as a noun is very rare.

• WHORE (verb)
  The verb WHORE has 3 senses:

1. work as a prostitute

2. have unlawful sex with a whore

3. compromise oneself for money or other gains

  Familiarity information: WHORE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bawd; cocotte; cyprian; fancy woman; harlot; lady of pleasure; prostitute; sporting lady; tart; whore; woman of the street; working girl

Hypernyms ("whore" is a kind of...):

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

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

call girl (a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone)

camp follower (a prostitute who provides service to military personnel)

comfort woman; ianfu (a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II)

demimondaine (a female prostitute)

floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)

white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)

Derivation:

whore (have unlawful sex with a whore)

whore (work as a prostitute)

whoredom (offering sexual intercourse for pay)

• WHORE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work as a prostitute

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "whore" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

whore (a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have unlawful sex with a whore

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "whore" is one way to...):

fornicate (have sex without being married)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

whore (a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Compromise oneself for money or other gains

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

She whored herself to Hollywood

Hypernyms (to "whore" is one way to...):

compromise (make a compromise; arrive at a compromise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Here I discovered the true causes of many great events that have surprised the world; how a whore can govern the back-stairs, the back-stairs a council, and the council a senate.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in the courts of princes, for a hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers, to ascribe the greatest exploits in war, to cowards; the wisest counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman virtue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chastity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many innocent and excellent persons had been condemned to death or banishment by the practising of great ministers upon the corruption of judges, and the malice of factions: how many villains had been exalted to the highest places of trust, power, dignity, and profit: how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)