demirep

noun

Definition of demirepnext
as in lover

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demirep
  1. lover
  2. courtesan
  3. other woman
  4. demimondaine
  5. paramour
Noun
  • The future outlook, unfortunately, is cloudy for lovers of the morning cup o’ Joe.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • While the 2024 Golden Vines pulled out all the stops for wine lovers who gathered from around the world, Miami is set to one-up one of the great wine weekends of the year.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of lover
Noun
  • Queen of the Night is a big juicy epic about the many travails of an opera singer and courtesan in 18th-century France, her many enemies, and her many lovers.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The title character was a French commoner turned courtesan (a polite term for high-class prostitute) who lived from 1743 to 1793.
    Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
Definition of courtesan
Noun
  • The former couple settled outside of court, but several other women came forward with their own lawsuits along the same vein.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Her videos quickly caught on and other women who had breast cancer started reaching out to her offering support and words of wisdom.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of other woman
Noun
  • To this day, she’s drawn to the bruise of blue that belies the kittenish blush, the tension between the girl next door and the demimondaine, who are not so far apart, who may even be one.
    Susan Dominus Photographs by Joshua Kissi Styled by Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs by Collier Schorr Styled by Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs by Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The object of Christian’s adoration is Satine, a nightclub chanteuse and demimondaine, almost past her prime and riddled with consumption.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 July 2019
Definition of demimondaine
Noun
  • In this scene, Romy and her paramour, Samuel (Harris Dickinson), were alone in a cheap hotel room in Manhattan, attempting to define their new dynamic.
    Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The drama is largely relational, as the Koubek brothers and their paramours wrestle with the conventions that pervade their lives.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of paramour
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