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    PHILANDERER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    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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