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kept women

kept women is the plural of kept woman.

Meaning of kept woman

Noun

kept woman (plural kept women)

  1. A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).
    • He said: "Why bother about a career? After all, kept woman is a thoroughly respectable occupation—or can be made so by any preacher or justice of the peace. . . ."
      "I could not belong to a man unless I cared for him," said she.1912, David Graham Phillips, chapter 6, in The Price She Paid
    Synonyms:
    sugar baby, doxy

Questions about kept women

What is kept women the plural of?
Kept women is the plural of kept woman.

Words near kept women in the dictionary

  1. kept up with the times
  2. kept vigil
  3. kept watch
  4. kept wicket
  5. kept woman
  6. kept women
  7. keptest
  8. keptst
  9. ker
  10. ker-
  11. ker-thump

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