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
Each Reacher season has given our abnormally large vigilante hobo an statistically ordinary, human-size paramour.
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Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Hopefully, your paramour will take a hint and follow suit.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
If her ostensible paramour was marked by sadness and an inability to relate, Molly connects more with places and things.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Though people didn’t know it at the time, the note was for Graber, from a programmer paramour.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Hopefully, your paramour will take a hint and follow suit.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
If her ostensible paramour was marked by sadness and an inability to relate, Molly connects more with places and things.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Though people didn’t know it at the time, the note was for Graber, from a programmer paramour.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paramour
Noun
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Here are performances music lovers won’t want to miss.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
19 June 2025
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Any dinosaur lovers at home should be eating up this documentary special series on PBS this week.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Prosecutors accused Read, 45, of hitting her boyfriend John O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV in a drunken rage and leaving him to die during a snowstorm on Jan. 29, 2022.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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Quintero’s testimony against her boyfriend got her a reduced sentence of 13 years.—
Charles Rabin,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2025
Noun
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In one incident that took place in Grand Lake, a man shot and killed a cow moose that had knocked down his girlfriend in her yard and was trying to stomp her.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
19 June 2025
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Another featured a man yelling at his girlfriend of three years regarding her recent miscarriage.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Authorities have accused him of impersonating law enforcement and fatally shooting a Democratic state representative and her husband and wounding another state legislator and his wife.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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Season 1 saw them and their nearly grown children, Larry (Harry Richardson) and Gladys (Taissa Farmiga), move into an ostentatious mansion on old-money 61st St. Bertha set about scheming to rule high society the way her husband dominated business.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Olsen spoke with Fox News Digital about the importance of having people like his wife, Kara, Swift, Claire Kittle and many others also traveling to Nashville for this occasion.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
25 June 2025
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The group is accused of coordinating a couple of bizarre attacks to threaten and harm the wife.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2025
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“Paramour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paramour. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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