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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A lecherous dissipated man.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A man devoted to a life of pleasure and sensuality, especially in his relation to women; a debauchee; a rake.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A debauched or lecherous person.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a dissolute man in fashionable society

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French roué. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from past participle of rouer, to break on a wheel (from the feeling that such a person deserves that punishment), from Old French, from Latin rotāre, to rotate; see rotate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. debauchee
  1. rake
  1. libertin

hypernyms (3)

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  1. debauchee
  1. libertine
  1. rounder

same context (8)

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  1. colonne
  1. whoremonger
  1. année
  1. puft
  1. drudging
  1. continuelle
  1. metaphysique
  1. muddiness

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. rouerie
  1. rake

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