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comfort women

comfort women is the plural of comfort woman.

Meaning of comfort woman

Noun

comfort woman (plural comfort women)

  1. (euphemistic, historical, idiomatic) A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces before or during World War II.
    • She carefully watches the efforts of Koreans who are suing Japan to get reparations for the comfort women. It was only in 1993 that Japan formally recognized its involvement in the forced prostitution.1995 September 10, Jane H. Lii, “The Memories of a Comfort Woman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about comfort women

What is comfort women the plural of?
Comfort women is the plural of comfort woman.

Words near comfort women in the dictionary

  1. comfort stone
  2. comfort stop
  3. comfort stops
  4. comfort tone
  5. comfort woman
  6. comfort women
  7. comfort zone
  8. comfort zones
  9. comfort-ate
  10. comfort-eat
  11. comfort-eaten

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