English > philanderer: 1 sense > noun 1, person Meaning | A man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them. |
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Synonyms | womanizer, womaniser |
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Narrower | Casanova | Any man noted for his amorous adventures |
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Don Juan | Any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman) |
Lothario | A successful womanizer |
wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher | A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women |
Broader | libertine, debauchee, rounder | A dissolute person |
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man, adult male | An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) |
Spanish | braguetero, gallinazo, ligón, mujeriego, rompecorazones |
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Catalan | lligon |
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Verbs | philander | have amorous affairs |
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