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Playfellow vs Paramour - What's the difference?

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Playfellow is a related term of paramour.


As nouns the difference between playfellow and paramour

is that playfellow is (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with while paramour is an illicit lover, either male or female.

As an adverb paramour is

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playfellow

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • "I’ve brought you a new playfellow ," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows --carefully she drew her hind feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin.

    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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