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ADULTERER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adulterer mean?
• ADULTERER (noun)
The noun ADULTERER has 1 sense:
1. someone who commits adultery or fornication
Familiarity information: ADULTERER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who commits adultery or fornication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
adulterer; fornicator
Hypernyms ("adulterer" is a kind of...):
debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adulterer"):
adulteress; fornicatress; hussy; jade; loose woman; slut; strumpet; trollop (a woman adulterer)
wencher (someone who patronizes prostitutes)
Derivation:
adultery (extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations)
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