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he·tae·ra

 (hĭ-tîr′ə) also he·tai·ra (-tīr′ə)
n. pl. he·tae·rae (-tîr′ē) or he·tae·ras also he·tai·rai (-tīr′ī′) or he·tai·ras
An ancient Greek courtesan or concubine, especially one who was highly educated or refined.

[Greek hetairā, feminine of hetairos, companion; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.]

he·tae′ric adj.
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hetaera

(hɪˈtɪərə) or

hetaira

n, pl -taerae (-ˈtɪəriː) or -tairai (-ˈtaɪraɪ)
(Historical Terms) (esp in ancient Greece) a female prostitute, esp an educated courtesan
[C19: from Greek hetaira concubine]
heˈtaeric, heˈtairic adj
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he•tae•ra

(hɪˈtɪər ə)

n., pl. -tae•rae (-ˈtɪər i)
1. a highly cultured courtesan or concubine, esp. in ancient Greece.
[1810–20; < Greek hetaíra (feminine) companion]
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hetaera

a female companion or paramour of ancient Greece, a sort of professional prostitute.
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Translations

hetaera

n pl <-rae or -ras> → Hetäre f
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References in classic literature ?
Hayward surrounded his sordid and vulgar little adventures with a glow of poetry, and thought he touched hands with Pericles and Pheidias because to describe the object of his attentions he used the word hetaira instead of one of those, more blunt and apt, provided by the English language.
[7.1] Uma vez, a hetaira Frine (21), por desejar testa-lo, fingiu ser perseguida por alguns e buscar refugio em sua pequena casa.
He brings new interpretations to the ancient Greek institutions of pallake, nothoi, and hetaira. A primary subject of his present study is the pallake, or slave-wife institution, prevalent in the ancient Greek world generally and more specifically in classical Athens.
The middle part includes Al-Hidaib and Abu-Halageem villages the North part include Al Hetaira and Al Ahamda villages.
Asimismo, los tres poemas suponen momentos, cortes, que nos muestran, cada uno a su modo, cada uno con su singular perspectiva, el dificil proposito de construccion de la subjetividad, del yo femenino en el Modernismo; espacio en que la feminidad aparecia atrapada en un paisaje anulador, en esa vision decimononica en la que las mujeres fueron concebidas a partir de dos polos opuestos y extremos: virgen, santa / hetaira, femme fatal; y que, como ha senalado Catharina Vallejo, las arrojo al lugar de "un hueco, el margen, la ausencia" (50).
La redaccion de Informaciones daba a una casa "de alto y discreto lenocinio, que frecuentaban un companero reportero grafico y un preboste del regimen para el refocile con la misma hetaira" (131).
Para la intelectualidad de la epoca no fueron menores los obstaculos provenientes de la forma mentis de la filosofia griega: el ente es la cuestion de las cuestiones, razonar es masculino, el matrimonio es cuestion menor y de especie, y la mujer o es hetaira placentera o es domestica util, pero en ambos casos <<conflictiva>>.