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Meaning of "hetaira" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HETAIRA

hetaira  [hɪˈtaɪrə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETAIRA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hetaira 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 HETAIRA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hetaira

Hetaira

In ancient Greece, hetairai or hetaerae were courtesans—highly educated, sophisticated companions. Although most engaged in sexual relations with their patrons, hetairai were not simple prostitutes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETAIRA


almirah
ælˈmaɪrə
Ancyra
ænˈsaɪrə
aspirer
əˈspaɪrə
Cossyra
kəˈsaɪrə
desirer
dɪˈzaɪrə
naira
ˈnaɪrə
palmyra
pælˈmaɪrə
Sapphira
sæˈfaɪrə
shotfirer
ˈʃɒtˌfaɪrə
Stagira
stəˈdʒaɪrə
Syrah
ˈsaɪrə
tayra
ˈtaɪrə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETAIRA

het
het up
hetaera
hetaerae
hetaeric
hetaerism
hetaeristic
hetairai
hetairia
hetairic
hetairism
hetairistic
heterarchy
heterauxesis
hetero
heteroatom
heteroauxin
heteroblastic
heteroblasty
heterocarpous

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETAIRA

Altamira
Beira
capoeira
Essaouira
Hegira
Hejira
La Guaira
lempira
lira
Madeira
Mahavira
mangabeira
mbira
moira
Mufulira
Palmira
pareira
Pereira
rangatira
Terceira

Synonyms and antonyms of hetaira in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hetaira» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETAIRA

Find out the translation of hetaira to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hetaira from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hetaira» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hetaira
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hetaira
570 millions of speakers

English

hetaira
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hetaira
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hetaira
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гетера
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hetaira
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রক্ষিতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hétaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hetaira
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hetäre
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hetaira
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hetaira
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hetaira
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hetaira
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hetaira
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इटायरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hetaira
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hetaira
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hetaira
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гетера
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hetaira
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εταίρας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hetaira
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hetaira
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hetaira
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hetaira

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETAIRA»

The term «hetaira» is normally little used and occupies the 130.308 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HETAIRA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hetaira» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hetaira» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETAIRA»

Discover the use of hetaira in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hetaira and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Feminine: In Jungian Psychology and in Christian Theology
The Hetaira's relation to the male stimulates and promotes his individual interests , his inclinations, and even his problems, thus affecting his shadow side and the subjective side of his anima.10 This can be dangerous if she has not learned ...
Ann Belford Ulanov, 1971
2
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
Because a hetaira is concerned with the subjective individual aspect in man as well as in herself, she tends to address herself to the shadow side of the individual, to the same extent that a mother will tend to disregard it in favour of social ...
Harold Bloom, 2009
3
The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Includes CD
The Greek hetaira really is difficult to know, but given her history, a little fact- chasing is beginning to look like a radical gesture. A recent document-stuffed study of another Greek Other, the Persians, has demonstrated that the Greeks did not ...
Martha Feldman, Bonnie Gordon, 2006
4
Four Eternal Women
For the Hetaira it is decisive. In this lie both the significance and the danger of the Hetaira.” “Everything else – social security, position, etc. is unimport• ant.” ( Paraphrases): The shadow side of the male is open to the HETAIRA, as is also his ...
Mary Dian Molton, Lucy Anne Sikes, 2011
5
The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators
a mistress, a courtesan, a prostitute, or simply a woman who was hired to entertain one or more men at a banquet.4'1 Some of the danger posed by the pallake and hetaira to the oikos was legal in origin. A pallake or hetaira could be a free ...
Joseph Roisman, 2005
6
Reproducing Athens: Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, ...
in lasting relationships.43 Although the hetaira may have successfully concealed her fees, or her conversion of companionship into gifts and favors whose value was not easily calculated in precise economic terms, she could not and did not ...
Susan Lape, 2009
7
The Bitch is Back: Wicked Women in Literature
The work of Ann Bedford Ulanov focuses on the dual images of female archetypes, recognizing four structural forms: the Mother (the type most recognized by Jung), the Amazon, the Hetaira, and the Medium, or Medial Woman.27 Ulanov ...
Sarah Appleton Aguiar, 2001
8
Women and the Comic Plot in Menander
He is making the paradoxical argument that the woman's virtue (ret) makes her all the more a hetaira.Hetakespainstodistinguishher ¢qov(“character,”oftenina moral sense) from the tr»poi (“ways” or “character” in the sense of habits and ...
Ariana Traill, 2008
9
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE–200 CE
and competing with the men on equal terms?44 I suggest that both sides of her status are integrally a function of the transcendent, antidomestic quality of sym- potic conviviality. The hetaira, in her opposition to the excluded wife and in her role ...
Allison Glazebrook, Madeleine M. Henry, 2011
10
The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook
Greek writers differentiate clearly between the idea of the 'hetaira' and of the ' porne'. 'Hetaira' was not a generic term for a prostitute: a hetaira was rather more than a woman who sold sex. The 'hetaira' in Greek society is easily recognised: a  ...
Sian Lewis, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETAIRA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hetaira is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Why we're still up in arms about the mystery of the Venus de Milo
There are many images of hetaira – as courtesans were called - in Greek art but a marble statue on this scale seems much more likely to be the ... «The Guardian, May 15»
2
Are women ready to end their shame about nudity?
From high-class courtesans like the Greek hetaira and the Japanese oiran to the Chinese yiji, the sexual objectification of women is as old as ... «Irish Examiner, May 15»
3
Spanish Sex Workers Deserve Full Employment Rights, Says …
Colectivo Hetaira, a Madrid-based human rights groups which campaigns on behalf of sex workers, says that the decision of a Barcelona judge ... «Newsweek, Mar 15»
4
Kamel and the Camellia
In the original Spanish, Viola does not mince words and described the woman as an “hetaira” (prostitute). All this goes to show that one has to ... «Inquirer.net, Feb 15»
5
Spain gets a questionable GDP boost, thanks to drugs and prostitution
Representatives at Hetaira, a Madrid nonprofit that works to protect the ... no registry,” says Mari Carmen Fernández, a social worker at Hetaira. «Fortune, Oct 14»
6
9 Real People Who May Have Inspired Fairy Tales
This Rhodopis was a slave—and apparently had an affair with her fellow slave, the storyteller Aesop—and served as a hetaira, a sort of ... «io9, Oct 14»
7
Meet the Current Casts of Broadway's Long Running Hits - NEWSIES!
LAVON FISHER-WILSON (Medda). Brdwy: Lysistrata Jones (Hetaira u/s); Chicago (Mama Morton); The Color Purple (Sophia u/s & swing); Fav. «Broadway World, Aug 14»
8
Lysistrata Jones: Aristophanes in college is surprisingly baller …
Teal Holliday lends her knockout voice to Hetaira, Eros Motor Lodge escort and the musical's mystical, all-knowing narrator. Phil Newman plays ... «Pitch Weekly, Jul 14»
9
BWW Review: LYSISTRATA JONES: A MUSICAL COMEDY a Don't …
... Newman, also back from Los Angeles, as Xander, Teal Holiday as Hetaira, Katelyn Baron as Cleonice, and Christopher Carlson as Harold. «Broadway World, Jun 14»
10
Feminism's obsession with celebrity: It's time to stop making our pop …
Simone de Beauvoir likened the movie star to a modern incarnation of the hetaira; “She yields Woman over to the dreams of man, who repays ... «Salon, May 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Hetaira [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hetaira>. Apr 2024 ».
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