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PHILANDERER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them

Synonyms:

philanderer; womaniser; womanizer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("philanderer" is a kind of...):

debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "philanderer"):

Casanova (any man noted for his amorous adventures)

Don Juan (any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman))

Lothario (a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women)

masher; skirt chaser; wolf; woman chaser (a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women)

Derivation:

philander (have amorous affairs; of men)

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