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philanderer definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them [syn: womanizer, womaniser, philanderer]

Merriam Webster's

noun see philander

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Philanderer Phi*lan"der*er, n. One who hangs about women; a male flirt. [R.] --C. Kingsley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(philanderers) If you say that a man is a philanderer, you mean that he has a lot of casual sexual relationships with women. = womanizer N-COUNT [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

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