prostituteとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒstɪtjuːt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑːstətuːt/

名詞

prostitute (複数形 prostitutes)

1. A person, especially a woman, who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment.
   • 2012, Kelly Olson, Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society (page 50)

     Unfortunately, there is to my knowledge no visual evidence for the dress of the Roman prostitute, but the literary sources present us with a range of prostitute clothing (from rich accoutrements all the way down to nothing), […]

2. (derogatory) A person who engages in sexual activity with many people.
3. A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour.

使用する際の注意点

• Some speakers consider prostitutes (sex workers) to be female by default, and thus use "male prostitute" to refer to a man doing the same job.

同意語

• whore
• (person who performs sexual activity for payment): See also Thesaurus:prostitute
• (person perceived as engaging in sexual activity): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman, Thesaurus:promiscuous man
• (person who does an activity for money): sellout

動詞

prostitute (三人称単数 現在形 prostitutes, 現在分詞 prostituting, 過去形および過去分詞形 prostituted)

1. (transitive, usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money.
2. (transitive) To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
   • Bible, Leviticus xix. 29

     Do not prostitute thy daughter.

3. (transitive, derogatory) To use one's talents in return for money or fame.
4. (figuratively) To exploit for base purposes; to whore.

   Yet again a commercial firm had prostituted a traditional song by setting an advertising jingle to its tune.

関連する語

• prostitution

Latin

Participle

prōstitute

1. vocative masculine singular of prōstitutus