Synonyms for concubine

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kong-kyuh-bahyn, kon-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒŋ kyəˌbaɪn, ˈkɒn-

Définition of concubine

Origin : c.1300, from Latin concubina (fem.), from concumbere "to lie with, to lie together, to cohabit," from com- "with" (see com-) + cubare "to lie down" (see cubicle). Recognized by law among polygamous peoples as "a secondary wife."

noun harlot

Example sentences :

In the same year he married a seventh wife, and also a concubine.
Extract from : « A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihd' » by Moulavi Gergh Ali

The concubine of a priest is a wicked woman, but she is not a social abomination.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

Any slave woman may be made a concubine, but may not be married.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

A man may take his slave as a concubine, but he must not sell her to vice.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

If the wife did this, the Code did not allow the husband to take a concubine.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 » by Various

The mother of Che-Hwang-te had been a concubine of a merchant of Ho-nan.
Extract from : « Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas » by W. Hastings Macaulay

Acte understood then why Lygia could not become the concubine of any man.
Extract from : « Quo Vadis » by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Mary, his Egyptian concubine, was endeared to him by the birth of Ibrahim.
Extract from : « The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire » by Edward Gibbon

For is not my daughter the captive and concubine of an insane tuft-hunter?
Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann

We only know, however, of one wife of Saul, and one concubine.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings » by F. W. Farrar

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