PHILANDER


Meaning of PHILANDER in English

— philanderer , n.

/fi lan"deuhr/ , v.i.

(of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.

[ 1675-85; phílandros one who loves (of a woman, loving her husband); see PHILO-, ANDRO-; later used in fiction as a proper name for a lover, and appar. mistaken as "a man who loves" ]

Syn . trifle, dally, womanize.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .