Usually means: Servant woman, often in historical contexts.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. wench: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wench: Merriam-Webster
  3. wench: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wench: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wench: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wench: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wench, wench: Wordnik
  8. wench: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wench: Wiktionary
  10. wench: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wench: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wench: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wench: Dictionary.com
  14. wench: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Wench: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wench: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wench: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wench: Rhymezone
  19. Wench: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wench: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. WENCH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. wench: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wench: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wench: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wench: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WENCH: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wench: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Wench: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic, now dialectal or humorous, possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.
noun:  (specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.
noun:  (archaic or dialectal) Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart.
noun:  (archaic) A woman servant; a maidservant.
noun:  (archaic) A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”).
noun:  (archaic) A prostitute.
noun:  (US, archaic or historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic, now humorous) To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize.

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