COURTESAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does courtesan mean? 

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

1. a woman who cohabits with an important man

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURTESAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who cohabits with an important man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

concubine; courtesan; doxy; paramour

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

fancy woman; kept woman; mistress (an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man)

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

odalisque (a woman slave in a harem)