hetaira

American  

[hi-tahyuhr-uh] / hɪˈtaɪər ə /

noun

plural

hetairai

1. hetaera.

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Other Word Forms

• hetairic adjective

Example Sentences

Nevertheless, for Colectivo Hetaira and its members, the ruling is a step in the right direction.

From Newsweek

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 Project Gutenberg

As, at the time of Pericles the great and superior hetaira, Aspasia, raised the social status of woman in general, and succeeded in elevating her in culture to the standard of the most intellectual men, so, during the first decades of the nineteenth century woman was raised to a higher plane through a long series of moral aberrations.

From Project Gutenberg

These, mounting behind Sappho’s songs, spread through Hellas, creating as they spread a caste that borrowed from the girl her freedom, from the bard his wit, and, from the fusion, produced the hetaira.

From Project Gutenberg

Hetaira is a term which Sappho applied to her pupils.

From Project Gutenberg