LADIES' MAN Definition & Meaning

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ladies' man

or lady's man

noun

a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.

ladies' man

noun

a man who is fond of, attentive to, and successful with women

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of ladies' man¹

First recorded in 1775–85

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Idioms and Phrases

Also lady's man . A man who enjoys and attracts the company of women. For example, Because women seemed to seek him out at parties, Brian got the reputation for being quite a ladies' man . [Late 1700s]

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Example Sentences

"Leslie got it, and he was very good, he was the ladies' man, and I was more the hard man," the 91-year-old actor says.

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Alfred Hitchcock got to know him socially and Alfred Hitchcock knew the real man and knew that he was nothing like the suave ladies' man that he was on the screen or the clown.

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Bailey proved far more simpatico to the prickly Roth, who was famously obsessed with both his literary reputation and also with his reputation as what we might call a "ladies' man."

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"His father was, in his words, a 'ladies' man'," says Nathan.

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I glanced over at Dr. Mansfield to see if he looked like a ladies' man.

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