hetaira

American  

[hi-tahyuhr-uh] / hɪˈtaɪər ə /

noun

plural

hetairai

1. hetaera.

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Other Word Forms

• hetairic adjective

Example Sentences

In some respects the position of the ancient Greek hetaira was more analogous to that of the Japanese geisha than to that of the prostitute in the strict sense.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

This fact renders it more intelligible why a woman of such intellectual distinction as Aspasia should have been a hetaira.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

Aspasia had come from Miletus with another hetaira to Athens which her companion vacated to be bride of a Thessalian king, but where she became the wife of one beside whom mere kings were nothing.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

The Greek ideal of woman which the hetaira exemplified was beauty.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

The historians speak of Doricha, an hetaira mentioned by Sappho, the famous poetess, as the mistress of her brother Charaxus, who was a wine-merchant at Lésbos and travelled constantly to Naucratis.

From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis