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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money;
[syn: prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bawd \Bawd\, n. [OE. baude, OF. balt, baut, baude, bold, merry, perh. fr. OHG. bald bold; or fr. Celtic, cf. W. baw dirt. Cf. Bold, Bawdry.] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bawd \Bawd\, v. i. To procure women for lewd purposes. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bawd n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn: prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "bawd": fancy man, gigolo, harlot, hooker, madam, maquereau, meretrix, moll, nightwalker, pander, panderer, pimp, poule, procurer, procuress, streetwalker, white slaver, whore