noun
Meaning 1
A woman who performs massage; a female masseur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
masseuse
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /maˈsɜːz/
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US: /məˈsuːs/
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US: /məˈsʊz/
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rhymes with (UK) -ɜːz
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rhymes with (US) -uːs
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rhymes with (US) -ʊz
noun
Meaning 2
A masseur; a man who performs massage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: nonstandard
Examples
- year unknown, Jamie Lake, BOOK 4 - Bad Boy: Naughty at Night: Bad Boy | Gay Romance MM Boyfriend Series, Jamie Lake Just less than a week ago, he'd said he'd tell Peter's parents, his school, the press, that Peter was an erotic masseuse.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a female massager
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: massager
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French masseuse, feminine of masseur.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُدَلِّكَة (mudallika) — female masseur
- Belarusian: масажыстка (masažystka) — female masseur
- Bulgarian: масажистка (masažistka) — female masseur
- Catalan: massatgista — female masseur
- Czech: masérka — female masseur
- Danish: massøse — female masseur
- Dutch: masseuse — female masseur
- Esperanto: masaĝistino — female masseur
- Finnish: hierojatar — female masseur
- Finnish: hieroja — female masseur
- French: masseuse — female masseur
- German: Masseurin — female masseur
- German: Masseuse — female masseur
- Hungarian: masszőz — female masseur
- Italian: massaggiatrice — female masseur
- Lao: ຫມໍນວດ (mǭ nūat) — female masseur
- Latin: tractātrīx — female masseur
- Latin: ūnctrīx — female masseur
- Macedonian: ма́серка (máserka) — female masseur
- Norwegian Bokmål: massøse — female masseur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: massøse — female masseur
- Polish: masażystka — female masseur
- Portuguese: massagista — female masseur
- Portuguese: massageadora — female masseur
- Portuguese: massajadora — female masseur
- Romanian: maseză — female masseur
- Russian: массажи́стка (massažístka) — female masseur
- Spanish: masajista — female masseur
- Swedish: massös — female masseur
- Ukrainian: масажистка (masažystka) — female masseur
- Volapük: jimasetan — female masseur