hetaera
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 7
/hɪˈtɪəɹə/
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/hɪˈtɪəɹə/ · /hɪˈtaɪɹə/
Definition of hetaera
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.
“But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest...”
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noun
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(historical)A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.
“But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest...”
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A mistress.
“Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.”
“Christ appeared, only to reveal himself as the naked god Pan. Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἑταίρᾱ (hetaírā), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”).
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