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Playmate vs Paramour - What's the difference?

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Playmate is a related term of paramour.


As nouns the difference between playmate and paramour

is that playmate is a companion for someone (especially a child) to play with while paramour is an illicit lover, either male or female.

As an adverb paramour is

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playmate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
  • *
  • *:An indulgent playmate , Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
  • A female who has appeared as the centerfold in magazine.

    • Synonyms

    * (companion for playing) playfellow

    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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