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- [pawrn]
- /pɔrn/
- /pɔːn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pawrn]
- /pɔrn/
Definitions of porn word
- noun porn television shows, articles, photographs, etc., thought to cater to an excessive, irresistible desire for or interest in something: a magazine filled with enticing food porn; an addiction to real-estate porn. 2
- noun porn Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films. 1
- noun Technical meaning of porn (application) Still and moving images, usually of women, in varying states of nudity, posing or performing erotic acts with men, women, animals, machines, or other props. Some say it degrades women, some say it corrupts young boys (who down-load it from the web or exchange it on floppy disks). Most of it is in the form of JPEG images. Many websites offer porn of all sorts, almost always for a subscription. It is said that these are a driving force in the evolution of new technology and techniques for the web. Advertisments for them certainly constitute a significant proportion of all spam. There are even pornographic computer games, an early example being Mac Playmate. Beware - many institutions, particularly universities, have strict rules against their computers and networks being used to transfer or store such things, and you might get corrupted. 1
- uncountable noun porn Porn is the same as pornography. 0
- abbreviation PORN pornography 0
- noun porn publications or broadcasts that demonstrate an unhealthy or voyeuristic interest in a particular subject 0
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Origin of porn
First appearance:
before 1960 One of the 3% newest English words
First recorded in 1960-65; by shortening
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Porn
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porn popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
porn usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for porn
noun porn
- blue movie — (Idiomatic) a pornographic film.
- blueness — the quality or state of being blue.
- hard porn — hard-core pornography.
- immodesty — not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.
- lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
adj porn
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
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