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cyprian
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cyprian has 2 senses
- cyprian(n = noun.person) bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; Array has particulars: call girl, camp follower, comfort woman, ianfu, demimondaine, floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, white slave
- cyprian(n = noun.person) cypriot, cypriote - a native or inhabitant of Cyprus; Array is a member of cyprus
is a kind of adult female, woman
is a kind of european
Derived form adjective cyprian1
Adjective cyprian has 2 senses
- cyprian(a = adj.pert) cypriot, cypriote - of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; "Cypriot expatriates"; "Cypriote monasteries" Derived forms noun cyprian2, noun cyprus1
- cyprian(s = adj.all) Array - resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
cyprian, a. [L. Cyprius, fr. Cyprus, Gr. , an island in the Mediterranean, renowned for the worship of Venus.].
- Belonging to Cyprus. [1913 Webster]
- Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness. [1913 Webster]
cyprian, n.
- A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot. [1913 Webster]
- A lewd woman; a harlot. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
cyprian
Libertine
N libertine, voluptuary, rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man, intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard, chartered libertine, adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, woman, woman of the town, streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece, frail sisterhood, demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, slut, minx, harridan, unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman, woman of easy virtue, wanton, fornicatress, Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette, demimonde, chippy, sapphist, spiritual wife, white slave, concubine, mistress, doxy, chere amie, bona roba, pimp, procurer, pander, pandar, bawd, conciliatrix, procuress, mackerel, wittol.
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