geisha

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gei=sha

CIDE DICTIONARY

geisha, n. [Jap., art person.].

 A Japanese singing and dancing girl, trained to provide entertainment and company for a man or group of men.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

geisha, n. (pl. same or geishas)
1 a Japanese hostess trained in entertaining men with dance and song.
2 a Japanese prostitute.

Etymology

Jap.

THESAURUS

geisha

artist, artiste, ballerina, ballet dancer, ballet girl, ballroom dancer, belly dancer, burlesque queen, choral dancer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, clog dancer, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, danseur noble, danseuse, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, figurant, figurante, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, heel-and-toe dancer, hoofer, hula girl, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, show girl, singer, square-dancer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, terpsichorean, vaudevillian, vaudevillist