Definition of Hetaira

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of hetaera) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hetaira

1. hetaera [n -RAI or -RAS] - See also: hetaera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hetaira

hesychastic
het up
het up(p)
heta
hetacillin
hetaera
hetaerae
hetaeras
hetaeric
hetaerism
hetaerisms
hetaerist
hetaerists
hetaerolite
hetaira (current term)
hetairai
hetairas
hetairia
hetairias
hetairism
hetairisms
hetarene
hetarenes
hetaryne
hetarynes
hetas
hetastarch
hetchel
hetchels

Literary usage of Hetaira

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

1. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes and Effects Throughout the World by William W. Sanger (1895)
"Venus Callipyge.—Lesbian Love.— Lamia.—hetaira;.—Social Standing. ... Other hetaira;. —Biographers of Prostitutes.—Philtres. THE Greek mythology supposes ..."

2. Women in the Athenian Agora by Susan I. Rotroff, Robert Lamberton (2006)
"Aspasia, a hetaira who lived for over a decade with the powerful 5th-century politician Perikles, is reputed to have been proficient in the (normally manly) ..."

3. Judicial Murder: The Case of Lieutenant Wark by E. R. Grain (1900)
"The social position of the Greek hetaira at the time of Pericles and Alexander the Great cannot be judged or measured by the position of the courtesan in ..."

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