| 单词 | paramour |
| 释义 | paramour (once / 6234 pages) n A paramour is a lover, and often a secret one you're not married to. So it's best not to kiss and make eyes at your paramour in public, unless you want to be the center of a lot of gossip. The noun paramour evolved from the French phrase par amour, meaning “passionately” or “with desire.” If you break it down, you get par, meaning "by," and amour, the French word for love. Once upon a time, women used this word to describe Christ, and men would use it to refer to the Virgin Mary. But eventually, paramour shed its religious connotations and came to mean “darling” or “sweetheart,” and later “mistress” or “clandestine lover.” WORD FAMILYparamour: paramours USAGE EXAMPLESThe Lyric currently plays host to Cirque du Soleil show Paramour, tickets for which are available until the end of July. BBC(Dec 02, 2016) Both the friend and the paramour make brief appearances onscreen. Seattle Times(Nov 27, 2016) Democrats might make an issue of Mr. Petraeus’s misdemeanor conviction for turning over classified information to a biographer who was also his paramour. Wall Street Journal(Nov 25, 2016) 1n a woman's lover Syn|Hyper fancy man lover a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage 2n a woman who cohabits with an important man Syn|Hypo|Hyper concubine, courtesan, doxy odalisque a woman slave in a harem fancy woman, kept woman, mistress an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man |
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