Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who plays at courtship; a fickle lover; a flirt (usually applies only to men).

    Charmeur, Schönredner

    ба́бникbábnik, донжуа́нdonžuán, волоки́таvolokíta

  2. Someone who engages in casual sex, usually frequently.

    Schürzenjäger

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

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom is a philanderer.

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  2. He's a philanderer.

    ruОн бабник.

    deEr ist ein Schürzenjäger.

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  3. Tom's a philanderer.

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  4. “Where did you get such miserable cargo, blinky?” “Rather, where are you carrying that debauched lot, you philanderer?”

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
fickle lover:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
fickle lover:
someone who engages in casual sex:

Origin

From philander (“lover”) + -er, from Ancient Greek φίλανδρος (phílandros), from φίλος (phí

From philander (“lover”) + -er, from Ancient Greek φίλανδρος (phílandros), from φίλος (phílos, “love”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

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Forms

plural: philanderers
Singularphilanderer
Pluralphilanderers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them:womanizerwomaniser

Word family

1 related words
Relatedphilander

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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