名詞 harlot:

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

1. The harlot was killed together with the fugitive.
   那個(gè)妓女和逃犯一起被殺死了。

har.lot

n.（名詞）
A prostitute.
妓女

來源：
Middle English [vagabond, rogue, lecher, harlot]
中古英語 [流浪乞丐，流氓，好色之徒，妓女]
from Old French arlot, herlot [vagabond]
源自 古法語 arlot, herlot [流浪的]

【引伸】
har.lotry
<注釋>Harlot is first recorded in English in a work written around the beginning of the 3th century, meaning .a man of no fixed occupation, vagabond, beggar,. also the first main sense of the word herlot, which we borrowed from Old French. The recorded history of a word is sometimes all we need to scotch conjectures as to its ultimate origins. William Lambarde, in a 570-57' work, suggested that the word harlot came from the name of Arletta, or .Harlothe,. William the Conqueror`s mother. As we have seen, Lambarde was unnecessarily besmirching her, for the history of harlot makes clear that .prostitute. was not its first sense. In fact, the word came to mean .male lecher. before it meant .prostitute,. but by the time Lambarde wrote, .prostitute. must have been thought to have been the main sense of the word, hence his etymology.
Harlot 在英語中首次出現(xiàn)于某部創(chuàng)作于約3世紀(jì)初的作品中，意指.沒有固定職業(yè)的人，流浪者，乞丐，.這也是 herlot 一詞由古法語轉(zhuǎn)借而來的第一個(gè)主要意思。單詞的歷史記載通?？晒┪覀兺茰y(cè)該詞的最初淵源，威廉·蘭巴德在他于570年到57'年間創(chuàng)作的作品中指出： harlot 一詞來自于英王威廉一世的母親阿莉塔或.哈洛特.的名字，我們知道，蘭巴德并無需玷污英王母親的名譽(yù)，因?yàn)?harlot 一詞的歷史很明白地表明.妓女.之意并非該詞的第一個(gè)意思，實(shí)際上，該詞在意為.妓女.之前所具備的意思是.好色的男人.，但在蘭巴德創(chuàng)作之時(shí)，.妓女.一定已經(jīng)被認(rèn)為是該詞的主要意思，這便是它的詞源