Explore Concubines through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Concubines meaning
plural of concubine
Using Concubines
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of concubine
- In the example corpus, concubines often appears in combinations such as: and concubines, of concubines, concubines and.
Context around Concubines
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Concubines
- In this selection, "concubines" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, take, chinese, hundred, history, lived and young stand out and add context to how "concubines" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after both concubines were killed and and 300 concubines. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "concubines" sits close to words such as abattoir, agi and agitations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with concubines
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Which, had escorts and concubines. (5 words)
Children born of concubines were legitimate. (6 words)
After both concubines were killed, new officers were chosen to replace them. (12 words)
Guess who wrote the book: It was a man who had so many wives and concubines that if he were to sleep with one of his women each day, it would take him about three and half years to complete the cycle! (42 words)
Ankarsjö, p. 64 Ankarsjö records Blake as having supported a commune with some sharing of partners, though David Worrall read The Book of Thel as a rejection of the proposal to take concubines espoused by some members of the Swedenborgian church. (41 words)
Of course there is no end to the quest to conquer women until death supervenes, as in the case of wise Solomon with his 700 wives and three hundred concubines. (30 words)
Are women opening their legs for their concubines under their fertile moons and luring their husbands to incubate eggs they did not fertilize? (23 words)
Guess who wrote the book: It was a man who had so many wives and concubines that if he were to sleep with one of his women each day, it would take him about three and half years to complete the cycle! (42 words)
In her song, the beautiful woman from Shumen firmly declared, “Let the King have sixty queens, eighty concubines, young women without number! (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
Despite the limitations imposed on Chinese concubines, history and literature offer examples of concubines who achieved great power and influence.
Are women opening their legs for their concubines under their fertile moons and luring their husbands to incubate eggs they did not fertilize?
Of course there is no end to the quest to conquer women until death supervenes, as in the case of wise Solomon with his 700 wives and three hundred concubines.
Which, had escorts and concubines.
In summer, nationals and tourists throng the place to see the emperor's golden chair and the courtyards where the ruler's wives and concubines lived.
Meanwhile his father, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 67, is said to be self-isolating in a four-star Alpine hotel accompanied by a harem of 20 concubines with military ranks.
Guess who wrote the book: It was a man who had so many wives and concubines that if he were to sleep with one of his women each day, it would take him about three and half years to complete the cycle!
In this region, many female children aged 14 and over become concubines in accordance with the demands made by the men who choose to “buy” them.
In her song, the beautiful woman from Shumen firmly declared, “Let the King have sixty queens, eighty concubines, young women without number!
We need to return to Biblical marriage like Solomon had - 700 wives and 300 concubines.
After both concubines were killed, new officers were chosen to replace them.
Ancient times Scene from the Harem by Fernand Cormon (1845–1924) In ancient times, two sources for concubines were permitted under an Islamic regime.
Ankarsjö, p. 64 Ankarsjö records Blake as having supported a commune with some sharing of partners, though David Worrall read The Book of Thel as a rejection of the proposal to take concubines espoused by some members of the Swedenborgian church.
A samurai could take concubines but their backgrounds were checked by higher-ranked samurai.
As the Commissioner(Minister) of Finance, he signed Government checks to concubines and other ladies he barely knew.
Augustine eventually broke off his engagement to his eleven-year-old fiancée, but never renewed his relationship with either of his concubines.
Besides the Empress, the Emperor could take, and nearly always took, several secondary consorts (" concubines ") of various hierarchical degrees.
By his various wives and concubines Priam was the father of fifty sons and many daughters.
Children born of concubines were legitimate.
Children from concubines were considered inferior to those of the wife and did not receive equal wealth/legacy from their father.
Common combinations with concubines
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and concubines 12×
- of concubines 8×
- concubines and 7×
- concubines were 5×
- as concubines 4×
- concubines who 3×
- concubines by 3×
- concubines in 2×
- take concubines 2×
- his concubines 2×