Lothario
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Lo·thar·i·o
also lo·thar·i·o (lō-thâr′ē-ō)n. pl. Lo·thar·i·os also lo·thar·i·os
A man who seduces or attempts to seduce women as a matter of habit.
[After Lothario, a character in The Fair Penitent, a play by English dramatist and poet Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718).]
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Lothario
(ləʊˈθɑːrɪˌəʊ)n, pl -os
(sometimes not capital) a rake, libertine, or seducer
[C18: after a seducer in Nicholas Rowe's tragedy The Fair Penitent (1703)]
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Lo•thar•i•o
(loʊˈθɛər iˌoʊ)n., pl. -thar•i•os.
(often l.c.) a man who obsessively seduces women.
[after the young seducer in Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent (1703)]
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Noun | 1. | Lothario - a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women philanderer, womaniser, womanizer - a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them |
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Lothario
also lotharionoun
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Lothario
n (hum) → Don Juan m
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