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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
philanderer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the middle-aged philanderer, it turns out, is as mythical as the sexless middle-aged woman.
▪ Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud, and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer.
▪ Universal Pictures wanted Chase to play house philanderer Otter, and the role was offered to him.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Philanderer

Philanderer \Phi*lan"der*er\, n. One who hangs about women; a male flirt. [R.]
--C. Kingsley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
philanderer

1816, agent noun from philander (v.).

Wiktionary
philanderer

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

WordNet
philanderer

n. a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them [syn: womanizer, womaniser]

Usage examples of "philanderer".

A vision of his antitype, the Cowes Philanderer, crossed me for a second.

He applied his beguiling enticements with the crafty art of a true philanderer and boldly advanced his exploits with unmitigated verve.

I was listening at my post when Pitts sold the information to Cheryl Anne, who seemed to be pleased to learn her father was a philanderer.

The struggle was short and swift, and dramatic enough to hold even the philanderers on the coach-tops.

Like many philanderers, he felt the most tender solicitude concerning the virtue of his own wife.

By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels, and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.

Ackabar Anders, the starlight meanderer, profligate poltroon, feckless philanderer.

It was one of Emmy's favorite topics, one that she frequently chose to bring up, especially at exclusive dinner parties where she could be sure there were plenty of philanderers present: Why was it that a man could have as many illicit affairs as he liked and suffer not the slightest social stigma, but when a woman did it, she was socially ruined?

He was rumored to have been quite the philanderer, yet he devotedly wrote adoring letters home to his wife and four daughters living on Terga VII.