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

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 archaic) 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.

Similar:
concubine, doxy, fancy man, odalisque, courtesan, affinity, lover, copemate, playfriend, misteress, more...

Types:
lover, mistress, fling, affair, adulterer, adulteress, concubine, kept woman, more...

Phrases:
The Paramour Sessions, male paramour, more...

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new, former, lusty, alleged, royal, old, guilty, young, latest, interior, current

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Similar:
concubine, doxy, fancy man, odalisque, courtesan, affinity, lover, copemate, playfriend, misteress, more...

Types:
lover, mistress, fling, affair, adulterer, adulteress, concubine, kept woman, more...

Phrases:
The Paramour Sessions, male paramour, more...

Adjectives:
new, former, lusty, alleged, royal, old, guilty, young, latest, interior, current

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     rose,     burgundy,     garnet,     blush,     carmine,     maroon,     fuchsia



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