concubine 的定义
- a woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not legally married, especially one regarded as socially or sexually subservient; mistress.
- a secondary wife, usually of inferior rank.
- a woman residing in a harem and kept, as by a sultan, for sexual purposes.
concubine 近义词
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更多concubine例句
- She started as a concubine and transformed herself into one of the key political players of her time.
- Reuben the oldest was told that he would not excel, because he had loved his father's concubine and committed a grievous sin.
- Mary, his Egyptian concubine, was endeared to him by the birth of Ibrahim.
- He was born of Hagar, who was a concubine; and they still indulge themselves in the use of mercenary wives and concubines.
- Julius Capitolinus reproaches the Emperor Verus for cutting his beard at the instigation of a concubine.
- The slave who is captured in war and carried away as a concubine appears only at a far later stage of culture.