Meaning & use

Casanovas

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Men who are notorious for seducing and having numerous romantic or sexual relationships with women.

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The bar was full of self-proclaimed casanovas trying their best pickup lines.

He had a reputation as one of the office's biggest casanovas.

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Derived from Giacomo Casanova, the 18th-century Italian adventurer famous for his romantic exploits; now used generically, often lowercase, for any seductive charmer.

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