lady's man
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- noun
- Informal
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- He is known as a lady's man thanks to his charming attitude and great sense of humor.
Examples
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Daniel Craig entered the Bond brotherhood in 2006 as a Bond for the 21st century: darker, earthier, and more of a man's man than a lady's man.
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Yes, Wilt Chamberlain, perhaps the most famous womanizer in history, the lady's man who claimed to have slept with over 20,000 women in his life, is entrusted with the all-important task of protecting the virginity of a beautiful young woman.
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Ben had a reputation as a lady's man because he was always surrounded by women.
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Many people consider him a lady's man due to his ability to attract attention from women.
Synonyms
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A man who likes and attracts many women by flirting
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A man who has many short romantic relationships with women
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A man who is very charming and attracts many women
A man who keeps trying to start romantic or sexual relationships with women in a pushy way
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
lady's + man
The phrase is compositionally built from the possessive 'lady's' (of ladies/women) + 'man', so a B1 learner who knows both words and the possessive will readily infer 'a man associated with or popular among women'. Although it can carry pragmatic nuance (charmer/womanizer), the core meaning is predictable from the constituents and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Lady's man creates the simple image of a man who is always near a lady, liked or chosen by her and by other women. So, the phrase came to mean 'a man who is popular with women'.