PHILANDERER
Dictionary entry overview: What does philanderer mean?
• PHILANDERER (noun)
The noun PHILANDERER has 1 sense:
1. a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
Familiarity information: PHILANDERER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PHILANDERER (noun)
Meaning:
A man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
philanderer; womaniser; womanizer
Hypernyms ("philanderer" is a kind of...):
debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "philanderer"):
Casanova (any man noted for his amorous adventures)
Don Juan (any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman))
Lothario (a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women)
masher; skirt chaser; wolf; woman chaser (a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women)
