- (intransitive) often followed by with:
(of a man) to flirt with women
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phi•lan•der /fɪˈlændɚ/USA pronunciation
v. [no object]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- (of a man) to make love with many women whom one will not marry or about whom one does not feel deeply.
phi•lan•der
(fi lan′dər),USA pronunciation v.i.
phi•lan′der•er, n.
- (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry;
carry on flirtations.
- Greek phílandros one who loves (of a woman, loving her husband); see philo-, andro-; later used in fiction as a proper name for a lover, and apparently mistaken as "a man who loves''
- 1675–85
- trifle, dally, womanize.
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