Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man with whom one has an intimate romantic relationship.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who is in love; a lover.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A male lover.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lover ; agallant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An inamorata, I am informed by a legion of righteous students of Italian, is “a woman who loves or is beloved”; when used to refer to a man, however, the ending changes to the masculine, and the word becomes inamorato.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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An inamorata, I am informed by a legion of righteous students of Italian, is “a woman who loves or is beloved”; when used to refer to a man, however, the ending changes to the masculine, and the word becomes inamorato.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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An inamorata, I am informed by a legion of righteous students of Italian, is “a woman who loves or is beloved”; when used to refer to a man, however, the ending changes to the masculine, and the word becomes inamorato.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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An inamorata, I am informed by a legion of righteous students of Italian, is “a woman who loves or is beloved”; when used to refer to a man, however, the ending changes to the masculine, and the word becomes inamorato.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Few details speak as loudly as someone's style choices because, superficial as they may seem, they are what your inamorata or inamorato elects to wear all day.
Why possession of a celebrity perfume is reasonable grounds to end a relationship Hadley Freeman 2010
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Axyually, teh Prinsis naem wuz Buttercup, n hur inamorato wuz Westly.
My name is not - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And Morris compares himself to Charlotte BrontE's Jane Eyre -- and Clinton to her mysterious inamorato, Rochester.
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Crevecoeur, still laughing at the chivalrous inamorato.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Provided always, his disease proceed not originally from it, that he be not some light inamorato, some idle fantastic, who capers in conceit all the day long, and thinks of nothing else, but how to make jigs, sonnets, madrigals, in commendation of his mistress.
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A lascivious inamorato plots all the day long to please his mistress, acts and struts, and carries himself as if she were in presence, still dreaming of her, as Pamphilus of his Glycerium, or as some do in their morning sleep.
Prolagus commented on the word inamorato
I guess from Italian innamorato, same meaning.
June 29, 2008