What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?
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Courtesan
//kɔːtɪˈzæn//
Synonyms for "courtesan" (194 found)
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Closest matches (39)
Strong matches (58)
Related words (97)
Noun(88 words)
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3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
57 translations across 34 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἑταίρα noun (high-status prostitute)
Arabic
1 entries- مَحْظِيّة noun (high-status prostitute)
Armenian
2 entries- կուրտիզանուհի noun (high-status prostitute)
- պերճաղիճ noun (high-status prostitute)
Belarusian
1 entries- куртыза́нка noun (high-status prostitute)
Bulgarian
1 entries- куртиза́нка noun (high-status prostitute)
Catalan
1 entries- cortesana noun (high-status prostitute)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 妓女 noun (high-status prostitute)
- 高級妓女 /高级妓女 noun (high-status prostitute)
Czech
1 entries- kurtizána noun (high-status prostitute)
Danish
2 entries- hofdame noun (woman of court)
- kurtisane noun (high-status prostitute)
Dutch
1 entries- courtisane noun (high-status prostitute)
Finnish
4 entries- hovinainen noun (woman of court)
- kurtisaani noun (mistress)
- kurtisaani noun (high-status prostitute)
- seurapiirihuora noun (high-status prostitute)
French
1 entries- courtisane noun (high-status prostitute)
Galician
2 entries- cortesá noun (woman of court)
- cortesá noun (high-status prostitute)
German
2 entries- Hofdame noun (woman of court)
- Kurtisane noun (high-status prostitute)
Greek
1 entries- κοκότα noun (high-status prostitute)
Hungarian
2 entries- kurtizán noun (high-status prostitute)
- kéjnő noun (high-status prostitute)
Italian
3 entries- cortigiana noun (woman of court)
- cortigiana noun (high-status prostitute)
- prostituta noun (high-status prostitute)
Japanese
3 entries- 娼婦 noun (high-status prostitute)
- 宮廷の女 noun (woman of court)
- 高級娼婦 noun (high-status prostitute)
Korean
2 entries- 고급 창녀 noun (high-status prostitute)
- 창녀 noun (high-status prostitute)
Latin
1 entries- meretrix noun (high-status prostitute)
Macedonian
1 entries- куртиза́на noun (high-status prostitute)
Manx
1 entries- streebagh noun (high-status prostitute)
Nahuatl
1 entries- āhuiyani noun (high-status prostitute)
Polish
2 entries- kurtyzana noun (mistress)
- kurtyzana noun (high-status prostitute)
Portuguese
2 entries- cortesã noun (woman of court)
- cortesã noun (high-status prostitute)
Romanian
1 entries- curtezană noun (high-status prostitute)
Russian
4 entries- куртиза́нка noun (woman of court)
- куртиза́нка noun (mistress)
- куртиза́нка noun (high-status prostitute)
- придво́рная noun (woman of court)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kurtizàna noun (high-status prostitute)
- куртиза̀на noun (high-status prostitute)
Slovak
1 entries- kurtizána noun (high-status prostitute)
Slovene
1 entries- kurtizana noun (high-status prostitute)
Spanish
1 entries- cortesana noun (high-status prostitute)
Swedish
3 entries- hovdam noun (woman of court)
- kurtisan noun (mistress)
- kurtisan noun (high-status prostitute)
Ukrainian
1 entries- куртиза́нка noun (high-status prostitute)
Vietnamese
2 entries- đĩ hạng sang noun (high-status prostitute)
- đĩ quý phái noun (high-status prostitute)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In the notes he wrote for Nana, his novel about a courtesan in Second Empire Paris, Zola imagined ‘a whole society hurling itself’ at her body, ‘a pack of hounds after a bitch, who is not even on heat and makes fun of the hounds following her’. This might also describe the life of Harriette Wilson, whose unguarded pursuit by the leaders of the British aristocracy, the army, the government and opposition made her the most desired, and then the most dangerous, woman in Regency London.
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The courtesan moves like a mann, but whatever piece captures her is also removed from the board (unless it’s a king).
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