hetaira

American  

[hi-tahyuhr-uh] / hɪˈtaɪər ə /

noun

plural

hetairai

1. hetaera.

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Other Word Forms

• hetairic
  adjective

Example Sentences

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

His Pericles and Aspasia consists of a series of letters passing between the great Athenian demagogue, the hetaira, Aspasia, her friend, Cleone of Miletus, Anaxagorus, the philosopher, and Pericles's nephew, Alcibiades.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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

His Pericles and Aspasia consists of a series of letters passing between the great Athenian demagogue; the hetaira, Aspasia; her friend, Cleone of Miletus; Anaxagorus, the philosopher, and Pericles's nephew, Alcibiades.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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