Definitions for hetaira

hetaira he·tai·ra

Spelling: [hi-tahyuh r-uh]
IPA: /hɪˈtaɪər ə/

Hetaira is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in hetaira (aaehirt).

Definitions for hetaira

noun

  1. hetaera.

Examples for hetaira

At Athens there was nothing disgraceful in frequenting the dicterion or keeping an hetaira.

The classic hetaira seems more akin to this Apollochartered libertine of an age bent on being equally classical.

These thoughts, he says, have been suggested to him by the life of the hetaira Thais whose body and soul are ever at variance.

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

Henceforth, says the hetaira Bacchis to Myrrhina, our profits are secured by law.

Semi-Greek, a daughter of the Ptolomies, she had the charm of the Hellenic hetaira.

One of these, the hetaira esmeralda, Will was convinced must be the most beautiful of all flying creatures.

The nun generally was emancipated from man as thoroughly as the hetaira had been from marriage.

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

In Greece and Rome there was, perhaps you know, a certain class of females called hetaira, also a class of males called parasites.

Word Value for hetaira
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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