Definition of "philander"

philander

/fɪˈlændə/

noun
plural philanders
1. A lover.
  Quotations
  Yes, I'll baste you together, you and your Philander!
  1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], (please specify the page number), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
2. A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, of species Caluromys philander (syn. Didelphis philander).
3. (obsolete) A greater bilby, an Australian marsupial of species Macrotis lagotis (syn. Perameles lagotis).
verb
third-person singular simple present philanders, present participle philandering, simple past and past participle philandered
1. (intransitive) To woo women; to play the male flirt.
  Quotations
  You can't be philandering after her again.
  1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Daniel Deronda, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons