Definitions

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

  • noun A man who seduces or attempts to seduce women as a matter of habit.

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

  • noun One who womanizes; a philanderer.

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

  • noun American A habitual seducer of women.

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

  • noun a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them

Etymologies

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womanize +‎ -er

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Examples

  • i swear if you looked up the term womanizer in the dictionary - you'd definitely find a picture of oh so sexy bad boy chuck bass from gossip girl - played by british actor ed westwick - mr. bass is totally the guy nobody can stand but people find themselves

    popbytes 2008

  • i swear if you looked up the term womanizer in the dictionary - you'd definitely find a picture of oh so sexy bad boy chuck bass from gossip girl - played by british actor ed westwick - mr. bass is totally the guy nobody can stand but people find themselves

    popbytes 2008

  • i swear if you looked up the term womanizer in the dictionary - you'd definitely find a picture of oh so sexy bad boy chuck bass from gossip girl - played by british actor ed westwick - mr. bass is totally the guy nobody can stand but people find themselves

    popbytes 2008

  • i swear if you looked up the term womanizer in the dictionary - you'd definitely find a picture of oh so sexy bad boy chuck bass from gossip girl - played by british actor ed westwick - mr. bass is totally the guy nobody can stand but people find themselves

    popbytes 2008

  • Stanford claimed family members had to "educate" him about his previous life, and the former billionaire "indicated feeling bad after being informed by his family that he was known as a 'womanizer,'" Costa said, citing the Butner report.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Stanford claimed family members had to "educate" him about his previous life, and the former billionaire "indicated feeling bad after being informed by his family that he was known as a 'womanizer,'" Costa said, citing the Butner report.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Kim was known as a womanizer, a drinker and a movie buff, according to those people who had been in close contact with him and later left the country.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Reuters 2011

  • The song is growing on me, though I am not crazy about the chorus, …. the repetitiveness of the word womanizer just gets annoying after a while.

    Faded Youth Blog 2008

  • Fourth Emperor of Median Empire, he was known as womanizer, many things happened during his peaceful region.

    Iran and the Spirit of the Airyanem Vaejah Nation 2010

  • Fourth Emperor of Median Empire, he was known as womanizer, many things happened during his peaceful region.

    Printing: Iran and the Spirit of the Airyanem Vaejah Nation 2010

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  • A dissolute person.

    September 30, 2009

  • An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).

    A device used in the film "The Crying Game".

    A person who pays large sums of money for the privilege of dining on the flesh of endangered and nearly extinct mammals.

    Oestrogen.

    My cousin's former boyfriend, Ignatius O'Reilly, before he embraced Jesus Christ as his personal savior.

    Magdalena, patron saint of prostitutes and muse to marcel Proust.

    The Third Man.

    September 30, 2009

  • womanize

    September 30, 2009