nhà thổ
Definition
- Noun:
- Brothel: A house or establishment where people, typically women, engage in sexual activity with clients for payment. The term is considered dated and carries a negative connotation.
- Bawdy-house: An older, more formal synonym for a brothel.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Cảnh sát đột kích vào một nhà thổ bất hợp pháp. (The police raided an illegal brothel.)
- Trong tiểu thuyết cũ, nhân vật bị lừa bán vào nhà thổ. (In the old novel, the character was tricked and sold into a brothel.)
Advanced Usage
- The word "nhà thổ" is marked as "(cũ)" (old) in modern dictionaries, indicating it is an archaic term. Contemporary legal or sociological discussions more commonly use terms like "nhà chứa" or the formal "cơ sở mại dâm" (prostitution establishment).
Variants and Related Words
- Nhà chứa (n): A more modern, colloquial term for a brothel.
- Ổ mại dâm (n): A den of prostitution (often implies a secret or illicit operation).
- Kỹ viện (n): A historical/literary term for a brothel, sometimes implying a higher-class establishment.
Synonyms
- Brothel: The most direct equivalent.
- Bordello: A synonym for brothel.
- House of ill repute: A euphemistic term.
Related Idioms
- Vào nhà thổ ra đống rác: An idiom meaning to go from a bad situation to a worse one, literally "to go from a brothel to a garbage dump."
- Anh ta ly hôn rồi yêu phải người đó, đúng là vào nhà thổ ra đống rác. (He got divorced and then fell in love with that person; it's truly out of the frying pan and into the fire.)
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(cũ) Brothel, bawdy-house
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