Word Meanings - AMOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Love; affection. 2. Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMOUR)

• Intrigue
• Cabal
• plot
• conspiracy
• machination
• artifice
• design
• manoeuvres
• cunning
• duplicity
• trickery
• chicanery
• love affair
• amour
• ruse

Related words: (words related to AMOUR)

• AMOUR PROPRE
  Self-love; self-esteem.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• CABALISM
  1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. Emerson.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• INTRIGUER
  One who intrigues.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• CABALLERIA
  An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• CABALA
  1. A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediæval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumed that every letter, word, number,
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• CABALIST
  One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. "Studious cabalists." Swift.
• CABALISTIC; CABALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic. The Heptarchus is a cabalistic of the first chapter of Genesis. Hallam.
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• CONSPIRACY
  An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy. Syn. -- Combination; plot; cabal. (more info) 1. A combination of
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• FLORAMOUR
  The plant love-lies-bleeding. Prior.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• PARAMOUR; PARAMOURS
  By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words. For par amour, I loved her first ere thou. Chaucer.
• DAMOURITE
  A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.