Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

man about town

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.11 in modern English

Syllables: man about -town
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.

Example Sentences

"I'm very much the man about town."
"For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town."
"To Bertha this was a charm rather than a defect; his bashful candour touched her, and she compared it favourably with the foolish worldliness of the imaginary man about town whose dissipation she always opposed to her husband's virtues."

Inflected Forms

men about town (plural) man-about-town (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

bon vivant dandy socialite woman about town

Synonyms

boulevardier flaneur bon viveur epicure epicurean hedonist high-stepper lapling lotus-eater pleasure seeker pleasurist sensualist

Questions

What does man about town mean?: A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.

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