Usually means: Lover, often in secret affair.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word paramour:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. paramour: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. paramour: Merriam-Webster
  3. paramour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. paramour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. paramour: Collins English Dictionary
  6. paramour: Vocabulary.com
  7. Paramour, paramour: Wordnik
  8. paramour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. paramour: Wiktionary
  10. paramour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. paramour: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. paramour: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Paramour, paramour: Dictionary.com
  14. paramour: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Paramour (Cirque du Soleil), Paramour (disambiguation), Paramour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Paramour: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. paramour: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. paramour: Rhymezone
  19. Paramour: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. paramour: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. paramour: FreeDictionary.org
  22. paramour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. paramour: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paramour: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paramour: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (somewhat dated) An illicit lover, either male or female.
noun:  (obsolete) The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).
verb:  To go with a paramour; to have an affair.
adverb:  (obsolete, of loving, etc.) Passionately, out of sexual desire.

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