Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lover, especially a lover of a person who is married to someone else.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With love; in love; as a lover.
- noun A lover, of either sex; a wooer.
- noun A lover, of either sex, in a bad sense; one who takes the place of a husband or wife without legal right: the only sense of the word now in use.
- noun Love, as between the sexes; gallantry.
- To love; be in love with; woo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words.
- noun A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
- noun obsolete Love; gallantry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
illicit lover , either male or female.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman who cohabits with an important man
- noun a woman's lover
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In “Beauty and the Beast” or “The Frog Prince,” the animal paramour is an enchanted human, so by means of a deus ex machina, the beast becomes a prince.
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We also heard it had been rented or owned by William Randolph Hearst for his long-term paramour, Marion Davies.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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We also heard it had been rented or owned by William Randolph Hearst for his long-term paramour, Marion Davies.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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We also heard it had been rented or owned by William Randolph Hearst for his long-term paramour, Marion Davies.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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He talked the Luciano gang into backing him in building his dream casino, The Flamingo, the nickname he called his paramour Virginia Hill.
Who Are You? #2 The Daily Growler 2006
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You need to get over yourself, learn some humility, and then you need to move on. p.s.: a nut bag is something entirely different than you think and stop using the word paramour, it makes you sound like an arrogant donkey.
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PPPlleassseee. e ... give me a break with this phony ness and go hang out with your 'paramour' - about whom you want to brag to Maria but Maria is not interested!!
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• Ultimately giving the money from his wife and children's accounts to himself and his "paramour" -- including using the money to pay for a credit card he and his girlfriend used.
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Isn't that what the guy busted for sex with a vacuum called his paramour?
Tweets I have known 2009
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To top it all off, his paramour was a part-time staffer who was on the payroll and often traveled with Souder.
thesaraheffect commented on the word paramour
"Should I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous? And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in darkness to be his paramour?"
--R&J Act 5 Scene 3
September 19, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word paramour
Baltimorese for "power mower"
January 4, 2011