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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who commits adultery.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man guilty of adultery; a married man who has sexual commerce with any woman except his wife. See adultery. Formerly also spelled adultrer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
  • noun (Script.) A man who violates his religious covenant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who commits adultery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who commits adultery or fornication

Etymologies

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From the obsolete verb adulter +‎ -er.

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