paramour
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈpærəˌmʊr/
- Literature
:
amante
- Have you collected so many paramours you can't tell one from another?
Young males will pluck the eyebrows of their paramours, of their beloveds.
- Young males will pluck the eyebrows of their paramours, of their beloveds.
- And of course, it's now in suspension because the special prosecutor that she hired was her paramour.
Examples
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Why, Mr. Santo, I just want to tell you how delighted I am that you and your paramour could join us this evening.
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We will need your help and your paramour's to snare it.
Fiction book (2002) -
Will your paramour be joining us this evening?
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I thought possibly she might have quarreled with Paul, her London paramour, but then again she may have just been tired.
Fiction book (1990) -
The King noticed her during a masquerade and made her his paramour.
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To his death, my uncle loved her and considered her his ultimate confidante and paramour.
Fiction book (1997) -
It was one of Frank Stockburn's many paramours.
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Unfortunately—for her, that is—her paramour had been murdered in a raid.
Fiction book (2002) -
She mopes and mourns for her pubescent paramour but she knows my interventions have saved her life and she is sweetly grateful.
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She met her paramour in secret to avoid gossip about their relationship.
Synonyms
614
1.0
A person who has a romantic or sexual relationship with someone
151
7.2
A woman who has a long sexual relationship with a married man
24
9.1
A woman who lives with a man she is not married to and has less respect than his wife
21
6.8
A married person who has sex with someone who is not their husband or wife
A person who is a secret partner outside someone's main romantic relationship
How Secret
Surface Forms
Etymology
Paramour comes from the old French words par 'by' and amour 'love', a phrase that meant 'for love'. So a paramour was originally a lover, and today it usually means a secret or forbidden lover.