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Bedfellow vs Paramour - What's the difference?

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Bedfellow is a related term of paramour.


As nouns the difference between bedfellow and paramour

is that bedfellow is one with whom one shares a bed while paramour is an illicit lover, either male or female.

As an adverb paramour is

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bedfellow

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One with whom one shares a bed.
  • * 1599 Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew , .
    • ''Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
    ''Whither away, or where is thy abode?
    ''Happy the parents of so fair a child;
    ''Happier the man whom favourable stars
    Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow .
  • An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.
  • * 1873' ''They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange '''bedfellows ". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.'' — Anthony Trollope, ''Phineas Redux , Chapter 40.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Statistics and truth can be uneasy bedfellows when it comes to football, but one fact could not be ignored: neither side has a player with more than seven goals to his name.}}

    Synonyms

    * (one with whom one shares a bed) bedmate

    Derived terms

    * strange bedfellows

    paramour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * paramours

    Adverb

    (-)
  • *Chaucer
  • *:For par amour I loved her first ere thou.
  • *:
  • *:Is this trouthe said Palomydes / Thenne shall we hastely here of sire Tristram / And as for to say that I loue la Beale Isoud peramours I dare make good that I doo / and that she hath my seruyse aboue alle other ladyes / and shalle haue the terme of my lyf

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An illicit lover, either male or female.
  • * (rfdate), Macaulay:
    • The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour .

    Synonyms

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