fallen womannoun [ C ]
uk/ˌfɔː.lən ˈwʊm.ən/us/ˌfɑː.lən ˈwʊm.ən/old-fashioned disapprovinga woman who has lost her good reputation by having sex with someone before she is married
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Kinds of women
- a damsel in distress idiom
- adult
- amazon
- auntie
- bachelorette
- cougar
- councilwoman
- dame
- damsel
- dolly bird
- housewife
- ingénue
- Jezebel
- ladette
- Lady Muck
- slattern
- temptress
- tigress
- wallflower
- wench
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Examples from literature
- We speak of them as "fallen women".
- With the hope of checking the terrible evil of immorality which is doing such harm in the city, several associations for the reformation of fallen women have been organized by benevolent citizens.