a man who is very fond of women and has many love affairs
Origin of Casanova
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noun
The definition of a casanova is a man who is passionate about women and has many lovers.
An example of casanova is the story of Don Juan.
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Casanova
1725-98; It. adventurer, noted for his Memoirs, which include accounts of his many love affairs
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Casanova
noun
A man who seduces or attempts to seduce women as a matter of habit.
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AfterGiovanni Jacopo Casanova de SeingaltTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural casanovas)
- Alternative capitalization of Casanova.
Noun
(plural Casanovas)
- A man considered romantic and gallant, especially one who gives amorous attentions to women.
- A promiscuous, philandering man.
Origin
Eponym from Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Venetian writer and adventurer.
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Sentence Examples
- If the whole reason you want to line dance is because you like Carrie Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova", you can give yourself the instant gratification of going to YouTube and finding many videos showing the dance.
- By wearing a "cowboy casanova" logo on his chest, a man is hopefully poking a little self-deprecating fun at himself, recognizing that too much bravado is not necessarily a good thing.
- The famous actor considered himself to be quite the casanova with the ladies.
- Lucy eventually realized that her constant attraction to the casanova of the town could only end in disaster.
- It's been said that the famed Italian charmer Casanova ate sixty oysters a day!
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