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brothel

brothel

77 6.3
A place where people pay to have sex with prostitutes
  • noun
  • /ˈbrɔːθəl/
  • NSFW
translation icon : prostíbulo
  • After years of struggle, she finally escaped the brothel and started a new life.
  • prostitutes in brothels
  • visit a brothel
  • run a brothel

Well, they were trying to get this robot sex brothel started.

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Examples

  • "The Pleasure Palace," he said with a vague expression, "was the best brothel in the country."

    Fiction book (1994)
  • No one is going to invest in a failed hospital, in a rat-infested building that was once a brothel.

  • That girl worked in their brothel, then tried to run.

  • The brothel is closed for the night!

  • I clean up in a brothel.

  • His brother was caught in the local brothel, and his picture appeared in the newspaper.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Your mother disappeared during the attack on the brothel last night.

  • Simon built a building in the center, he has turned it into a brothel.

  • He'd like to work in a brothel.

  • He runs seven legal brothels in Nevada.

Synonyms

whorehouse
vsbrothel
  • NSFW
42 7.8

A building where people pay to have sex with prostitutes

is the standard neutral expression, not the crude informal label
bordello
vsbrothel
  • NSFW
9 9.6

A building where people pay to have sex

is the plain general term rather than this specific variant
cathouse
vsbrothel
  • Offensive
7 9.6

A place where people pay for sex

is the general, neutral label rather than this informal term
house of ill repute
vsbrothel
  • NSFW
2 8.9

A place where people pay to have sex

is a neutral description focused on paid sex, not moral judgment
house of prostitution
vsbrothel
  • NSFW
1 7.6

A building where people pay for sex

is a common, shorter way to refer to that same place
sporting house
vsbrothel
  • NSFW
9.9

A house where people pay for sex

is the neutral, standard name rather than this alternative label
bordel
vsbrothel
  • NSFW
9.9

A place where people pay for sex

is the same basic concept expressed in neutral terms
bawdyhouse
vsbrothel
  • NSFW
9.9

A house where people go to pay for sex

is the neutral modern label rather than this dated term
bagnio
vsbrothel
  • NSFW
9.9

A building where people pay for sex

is the ordinary, current name rather than this historical word

Compounds

1 9.9

A person who manages a brothel where people pay for sex

How Indulgent

den of iniquity
  • NSFW
2 9.1
brothel
  • NSFW
77 6.3
pleasure house
  • Offensive
9.5
fleshpot
  • NSFW
1 9.9
resort
247 1.1

Surface Forms

brothel singular
brothels plural

Etymology

Brothel comes from an old English word broþel that meant 'a place of sin'. So brothel came to mean a house where people 'pay for sex'.