<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not legally married, especially one regarded as socially or sexually subservient; mistress.</li><li>(Among polygamous peoples) a secondary wife, usually of inferior rank.</li><li>(Especially formerly in Muslim societies) a woman residing in a harem and kept, as by a sultan, for sexual purposes.</li></ul>