Definitions for paramour

paramour par·a·mour

Spelling: [par-uh-moo r]
IPA: /ˈpær əˌmʊər/

Paramour is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in paramour (aamoprru).

Definitions for paramour

noun

  1. an illicit lover, especially of a married person.
  2. any lover.

Origin of paramour

1250-1300; Middle English, from the phrase par amour by or through love Old French

Examples for paramour

Come—I am impatient to shed your blood, and that of your paramour.

Sadly, he had to leave his paramour behind in the Sunshine State.

He disgraced his honored name by actually marrying his paramour.

I deduced he was her paramour, husband or close relative, perhaps a brother.

How can you be the paramour type if you refuse to fall in love foolishly?

The king himself now asserts it was because he had tried to seduce his paramour.

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford spent last weekend in Florida with Maria Belen Chapur, his Argentinian paramour.

It is so easy to punish the woman, and yet it is not proved that she was worse than her paramour.

If her paramour is of low caste similar to herself, he has to marry her.

For some months she enjoyed with her paramour all for which she had sighed in her home.

Word Value for paramour
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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