Usually means: Secondary partner, not legally married.
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  1. concubine: Merriam-Webster
  2. concubine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. concubine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. concubine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. concubine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Concubine, concubine: Wordnik
  7. concubine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. concubine: Wiktionary
  9. concubine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. concubine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. concubine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Concubine, concubine: Dictionary.com
  13. concubine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Concubine (disambiguation), Concubine, The Concubine (film), The Concubine (novel), The Concubine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Concubine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. concubine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. concubine: Rhymezone
  18. Concubine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. concubine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. concubine: FreeDictionary.org
  21. concubine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. concubine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. concubine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Concubine: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. concubine: Encyclopedia

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Concubine: Easton Bible
  2. World English Bible Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Concubine: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Concubine: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
noun:  A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
noun:  (chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.

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