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bawd

Meaning of "bawd" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BAWD

Shortened from Old French baudetrot, from baude feminine of baud merry + trot one who runs errands; compare Old High German baldbold.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BAWD

bɔːd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BAWD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bawd is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BAWD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual relations in exchange for payment or some other benefit. Prostitution is sometimes described as commercial sex. A person who works in this field is called a prostitute, and is a kind of sex worker. Prostitution is one of the branches of the sex industry. The legal status of prostitution varies from country to country, from being permissible but unregulated, to an enforced or unenforced crime or to a regulated profession. Prostitution is sometimes also referred to as "the world's oldest profession". Estimates place the annual revenue generated by prostitution worldwide to be over $100 billion. Prostitution occurs in a variety of forms. Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to prostitution. In escort prostitution, the act may take place at the client's residence or hotel room, or at the escort's residence or a hotel room rented for the occasion by the escort. Another form is street prostitution. Although the majority of prostitutes are female with male clients, there are also gay male prostitutes, lesbian prostitutes, and heterosexual male prostitutes.

Definition of bawd in the English dictionary

The definition of bawd in the dictionary is a person who runs a brothel, esp a woman. Other definition of bawd is a prostitute.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BAWD

abroad · accord · afford · award · billboard · board · bored · broad · Claude · cord · dashboard · ford · fraud · keyboard · leaderboard · lord · record · reward · sword · ward

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BAWD

bavin · bawbee · bawcock · bawdier · bawdiest · bawdily · bawdiness · bawdric · bawdry · bawdy · bawdyhouse · bawl · bawl out · bawler · bawley · bawling · bawn · bawneen · bawsunt · bawtie

WORDS THAT END LIKE BAWD

becrowd · capacity crowd · crowd · dawd · dowd · follow the crowd · fwd · Gawd · in-crowd · lewd · outcrowd · overcrowd · overlewd · rent-a-crowd · rwd · showd · shrewd · shrowd · the crowd · wd

Synonyms and antonyms of bawd in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BAWD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bawd» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «bawd» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BAWD

Find out the translation of bawd to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bawd from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bawd» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

老鸨
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

alcahueta
570 millions of speakers
en

English

bawd
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

कुटनी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مومس
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

публичного дома
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

bawd
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

কুটনি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

catin
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Bawd
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Puffmutter
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

bawd
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

bawd
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Bawd
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhà thổ
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

bawd
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वाईट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

pezevenk
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

prostituta
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

bawd
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

публічного будинку
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

bawd
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

bawd
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koppelaar ster
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bawd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bawd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bawd

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BAWD»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bawd

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAWD»

Discover the use of bawd in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bawd and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
Art & Lies is a question and a quest: How shall I live?
Jeanette Winterson, 2013
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James Mabbe, The Spanish Bawd:
The Alnwick manuscript is also considerably shorter than the 1631 Spanish Bawd. Martínez Lacalle attributed the numerous omissions and its shortened format to its possible use as the script for a staged performance, or perhaps for a public ...
José María Pérez Fernández, James Mabbe, 2013
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The Plays of Shakespeare
Bawd. Why lament you, pretty one ? Mar. That I am pretty. Bawd. Come, the gods have done their part in you. Mar. I accuse them not. Bawd. You are lit into my hands, where you are like to live. Mar. The more my fault,* To 'scape his hands, ...
William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton, 1859
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The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems
Bawd. Why lament you, pretty one? Mar. That I am pretty. Bawd. Come, the gods have done their part in you. Mar. I accuse them not. Bawd. You are lit into my hands, where you nre like to live. Mar. The more my fault,* To 'scape his hands, ...
William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton, 1859
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The plays (poems) of Shakespeare, ed. by H. Staunton, the ...
Bawd. Why lament you, pretty one ? Mar. That I am pretty. Bawd. Come, the gods have done their part in you. Mar. I accuse them not. Bawd. You are lit into my hands, where you are like to live. Mar. The more my fault,* To 'scape his hands, ...
William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton, 1859
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The Works of Shakespeare
Bawd. Why lament you, pretty one ? Mar. That I am pretty. Bawd. Come, the gods have done their part in you. Mar. I accuse them not. Bawd. You are lit into my hands, where you are like to live. Mar. The more my fault,* To 'scape his hands, ...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With Remarks on ...
Bawd. Boult, take you the marks of her; the colour of her hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her virginity : and cry, He that will give most, shall have her first. Such a maidenhead were no cheap thing, if men were as they have been.
William Shakespeare, 1848
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life
Bawd. What else, man ? The stuff we have, я strong wind will blow it to pieces, they uro so piti- t'ully sodden. 1 Pand. Thou sny'st true ; they're too unwholesome o' conscience. The poor Transilvunian is dead, that lay with the little baggage.
William Shakespeare, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, John Payne Collier, 1847
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THE DRAMATIC WORKS AND POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, WITH ...
Bawd. Come, other sorts offend as well as we. Pand. As well as we ! ay, and better too ; we offend worse. Neither is our profession any trade ; it's no calling : — but here comes Boult. Enter the Pirates, and Boult, dragging in Marina. Boult.
SAMUEL WELLER SINGER, 1871
10
The Insinuating Bawd, and the Repenting Harlot to Which Is ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
Edward Ward, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BAWD»

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Anything but epic
The last words are reserved for the despised bawd who first brought the lovers together, and his cynicism drives both heroics and love from our ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
Shakespeare's Measure For Measure review by PATRICK MARMION
One way of solving the problem of Shakespeare's oddball play about sex, law and death is to turn it into a good old bawdy romp. This is the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
The Adventures of Pericles review: Deborah Hay is a triple threat …
In the brothel scenes, the trio of pander, bawd and pimp (Keith Dinicol, Brigit Wilson, Randy Hughson) have the scabrous appeal of characters ... «National Post, Jun 15»
4
The Adventures of Pericles fills Stratford stage with magic
... Brigit Wilson as the brothel madame Bawd, Randy Hughson as the rascally pimp Bolt and Antoine Yared as the redeemed cad Lysimachus. «Waterloo Record, May 15»
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THEATER: Shakespeare Behind Bars
... brothel run by a colorfully wicked bunch of rapscallions including Pander (Stephen Marshall) and the pitch-perfect Bawd (Roderick Blincoe). «Louisville Eccentric Observer, May 15»
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Listen to a mix of modern milestones from Melbourne producer …
Alex Clayton, AKA Asdasfr Bawd, is fast becoming a key figure in the local scene. His music absorbs the present, processes the past and paves ... «VICE, May 15»
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Tomlin and Fonda, together again
ADVERTISEMENT. NEW YORK - Feel free to call them the bawd(y) couple. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, who immortalized vengeful secretaries ... «Cherry Hill Courier Post, May 15»
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CT Rep Ends 2014-15 Season with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Some of his other favorite Shakespearean roles he's played include Fallstaff, Don Jon, Bawd, Holofernes and Dogberry. He holds an MFA in ... «Broadway World, Apr 15»
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SOUNDCLOUD WRAP: Asdasfr Bawd
It seems like 19-year-old Melbourne-ite Alex Clayton decided to choose an alias that was as far away from his given name as possible. Behold ASDASFR BAWD ... «Purple Sneakers, Apr 15»
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Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride
Ambrose Bierce defined her in his Devil's Dictionary as "a bawd hiding behind her demeanor." Kate Millett, the noted feminist, took issue with ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
REFERENCE
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