paramour
pronunciation
How to pronounce paramour in British English:
UK [ˈpærəmʊə(r)]
How to pronounce paramour in American English:
US [ˈpærəmʊr]
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- Noun:
- a woman's lover
- a woman who cohabits with an important man
Word Origin
- paramour (n.)
- c. 1300, noun use of adverbial phrase par amour (c. 1300) "passionately, with strong love or desire," from Anglo-French and Old French par amour, from accusative of amor "love," from amare "to love" (see Amy). Originally a term for Christ (by women) or the Virgin Mary (by men), it came to mean "darling, sweetheart" (mid-14c.) and "mistress, concubine, clandestine lover" (late 14c.).
Example
- 1. Keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour ?
- 2. France \'s Nicolas Sarkozy may finally run out of steam , find a new paramour , or perhaps both .
- 3. If a son of a paramour or a prostitute say to his adoptive father or mother : “ you are not my father , or my mother ,” his tongue shall be cut off .
- 4. If the son of a paramour or a prostitute desire his father \'s house , and desert his adoptive father and adoptive mother , and goes to his father \'s house , then shall his eye be put out .
- 5. Your judgment has been clouded by the sunk-cost fallacy : you hoped to get a master \'s degree , great food and an Italian paramour .