Definition of Hetaeras

1. Noun. (plural of hetaera) ¹

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Definition of Hetaeras

1. hetaera [n] - See also: hetaera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hetaeras

hessite
hessites
hessonite
hessonites
hest
hesternal
hests
hesychastic
het up
het up(p)
heta
hetacillin
hetaera
hetaerae
hetaeras (current term)
hetaeric
hetaerism
hetaerisms
hetaerist
hetaerists
hetaerolite
hetaira
hetairai
hetairas
hetairia
hetairias
hetairism
hetairisms
hetarene

Literary usage of Hetaeras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"... was the first to find it so unusual as to be impossible and to require correction. "En hetaeras inter ..."

2. Woman in Science: With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for by John Augustine Zahm (1913)
"... the men to leave them in their solitude and seek in the companionship of the hetaeras the intellectual atmosphere which was wanting in their own homes. ..."

3. French Dramatists of the 19th Century by Brander Matthews (1881)
"... soldiers, citizens, slaves, and hetaeras, all skilfully contrasting with the same classes as they exist nowadays, served to show that the ruling motives ..."

4. Principles of Political Economy by Wilhelm Roscher, John Joseph Lalor, Louis Wolowski (1878)
"... gasping for the last time for breath.1414 • " In the time of Demosthenes, even the more rigid were wont to say that people kept hetaeras for pleasure, ..."

5. Athens, Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1852)
"The hetaeras.—The Political Eminence lately acquired by Athens.—The Transfer of the Treasury from Delos to Athens.— Latent Dangers and Evils. ..."

6. Woman and Her Master by Morgan (Sydney) (1840)
"... now replaces the airy drapery of the ex-high-priestess of the temple of Venus. Aspasia, the most celebrated of the hetaeras, has become the arbitress ..."

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