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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Noun

This one’s for the chocolate lovers who appreciate a little mythology lesson, too.

— Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Star-crossed lovers sing right past each other on the duet from Bryan’s new Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs EP.

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of lovers

Noun

Four of my old boyfriends appeared because of what has happened to me.

— Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2026
The book is set around three years after the events of Heated Rivalry and sees Shane and Ilya as secret boyfriends while both play for Canadian hockey teams.

— Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of boyfriends

Noun

Both players, arrested in the offseason on charges tied to domestic abuse involving their girlfriends, remain the subjects of ongoing league investigations.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
There was a coordinated social media effort by the NFL to allow some of the league’s star quarterbacks — namely Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow and Jaxson Dart — to have their popular girlfriends canoodling with them at preseason practices.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of girlfriends

Noun

Of course its all about a murder she is accused of, one of her ex-husbands, and the timing couldn’t be worse for her beleaguered record company Megamax, now run by her first hubby and manager Barry Vogel (Alan Tudyk).

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2026
It was committed by husbands, fathers, friends, against women in particular (though research also raised awareness of male victims).

— Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of husbands

Noun

With her immense popularity, Swift has drawn more viewers to the sport, and the NFL is trying to replicate that success with other star players’ wives and girlfriends.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
People’s responses were also colored by everyone suddenly having lawyers and managers and agents, wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

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