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SEDUCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seducer mean? 

SEDUCER (noun)
  The noun SEDUCER has 2 senses:

1. a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoingplay

2. a man who takes advantage of womenplay

  Familiarity information: SEDUCER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SEDUCER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("seducer" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seducer"):

seductress (a woman who seduces)

Derivation:

seduce (lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A man who takes advantage of women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ladies' man; lady killer; seducer

Hypernyms ("seducer" 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 "seducer"):

undoer (a seducer who ruins a woman)

Derivation:

seduce (induce to have sex)


 Context examples 


I could not trace her beyond her first seducer, and there was every reason to fear that she had removed from him only to sink deeper in a life of sin.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne—between a guide and a seducer?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She told me that her seducer had burst out a-laughing when she had reproached him for his perfidy, and I swore to her that his heart’s blood should pay me for that laugh.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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