Thesaurus results for PARAMOURS

paramours

noun

plural of paramour

as in lovers

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 paramours Swift has been seen about town with famous friends, paramours and even one of her cats from time to time. — Lily Boyce, New York Times, 2 July 2026 As the media narrative went, a 27-year-old gay serial killer named Andrew Cunanan had murdered five wealthy gay paramours, the last of whom was the fashion designer Gianni Versace. — Adam Turner, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2026 Clark and Floyd had initially bonded over the show’s namesake app, a means for married people to meet discreet new partners; Floyd, too, had met up with potential paramours like Modern Love (Peter Sarsgaard), the online pseudonym of a local roller rink owner. — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026 During the course of the film, Grace deals with life, love (including a pair of paramours from the same band), professional disappointments, and the fallout of a horrible experience from her past. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2026 Other unconfirmed paramours include A$AP Rocky, multiple NBA players, and, most recently, Bad Bunny. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026 The record is filled with sexy dance-pop bangers and finds Khalid — for the first time in his career — using he/him pronouns when discussing paramours in his lyrics. — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025 Once again, the Western canon’s most famous paramours have traded soliloquies for pointe shoes. — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2023

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This is the Prairie School thumbprint that Condé Nast Traveler ranks among the world's best small cities for architecture lovers.

— Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
And despite wrapping production before the Canadian series aired, this new movie also mirrors it with a scene in which the two lovers stare at each other across a crowded nightclub dance floor.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 17 July 2026

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Two 20-something girlfriends shared a plate to my right, while a group of middle-aged white men traveling from Houston took up a conversation with the cashier.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026
Most coverage treated them as curiosities, a labor squabble in a faraway factory town, an authoritarian quirk about digital girlfriends.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of girlfriends

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Rose Chaus, the social head of Kansas City’s welfare department, blamed the heat for a scourge of bad behavior by husbands.

— Dan Kelly July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
Kennus said his advice for spouses, especially husbands who are in a similar situation, is that communication is very important during the good and bad days and their issues need to take a backseat to their wife’s condition.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2026

Definition of husbands

Noun

Brouillette, 37, was among the officers on the scene in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday after a fatal ICE shooting, according to two of his ex-wives who reviewed photos of the incident.

— Curt Devine, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Some of the biggest stars of the 2026 World Cup have known their wives since childhood.

— Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026

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