as in lover
literary
a person with whom someone is having a romantic or sexual relationship and especially a secret or improper relationship
Her husband found a love letter from her paramour.
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Recent Examples of paramour
The entrances were often tucked into alleyways, and exits were reached through tunnels, allowing paramours to avoid detection.
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airmail.news, 15 Feb. 2025
And, unlike humans, these inspiring paramours ask for very little — except to live their lives in peace.
—Ingrid Newkirk, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
The idea that someone super close to you will be able guess what is in your heart and gift you appropriately—that the right paramour will come up with right present—is well, beyond a tall order.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
Blanche boasts of having had a hundred and forty-three paramours.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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airmail.news, 15 Feb. 2025
And, unlike humans, these inspiring paramours ask for very little — except to live their lives in peace.
—Ingrid Newkirk, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
The idea that someone super close to you will be able guess what is in your heart and gift you appropriately—that the right paramour will come up with right present—is well, beyond a tall order.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
Blanche boasts of having had a hundred and forty-three paramours.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paramour
Noun
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Despite his hardened outlook on Heis, Rema remains a lover at heart.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
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The film premieres March 15 at the Roxy Cinema in New York, and stars Dario Yazbek Bernal and Jack Irv as two lovers whose whirlwind romance sends them down a rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Listen to this article Prosecutors on Saturday night backed up what family members of tragic victim Pamela Alcantara have been saying — that her boyfriend allegedly killed her in retaliation for planning to break off their relationship.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
9 Mar. 2025
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Defendants said the relationship gave Willis a financial interest in prosecuting the case because of the compensation her boyfriend received.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Quaid plays an assistant bank manager in the action comedy, who uses his inability to feel pain to his advantage when tracking down a trio of robbers who took his girlfriend (Amber Midthunder) hostage in a violent bank heist.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Since his debut in 2019, Rema says he’s had three girlfriends, with his longest relationship lasting two and a half years.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Wendy Budde and her husband Jim had known Prichard for years.—
Jonathan Vigliotti,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2025
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Burruss and her husband Todd Tucker — who together are co-producers for Othello behind lead producer Brian Anthony Moreland — also helped produce The Piano Lesson.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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Gene – who died from heart disease with Alzheimer's as a significant contributing factor, about one week after his wife Betsy died from hantavirus – had always had a love and interest in movies, admiring James Cagney, Errol Flynn and Edward G. Robinson.—
Elizabeth Stanton,
Fox News,
9 Mar. 2025
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Hackman, in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, apparently was unaware that his wife was dead.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Paramour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paramour. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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