inamorata
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of inamorata
1645–55; < Italian innamorata (feminine); see inamorato
Explanation
If you want to sound a little old-fashioned, you might refer to your girlfriend as your inamorata. A woman you love in a romantic way is your inamorata, although it's not a very common term these days. It would be a little startling if your friend said, "I'd like to introduce you to my inamorata," though you'd know he meant "the woman I love." The male version of an inamorata is inamorato, which is even more rarely used. Both words come from the Italian innamorare, "to fall in love."
Vocabulary lists containing inamorata
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At more than 11 minutes, Inamorata is the longest song they've ever recorded, a constantly-shifting requiem built from a "jam session in the tuning room" of their last tour, and developed extensively over lockdown.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2023
Has having your own business, Inamorata, changed that at all for you?
From The Verge • Nov. 9, 2021
Now, as the owner of a thriving direct-to-consumer swimwear line Inamorata, Ratajkowski is able to control her image and the end-product — a kind of vertical integration for the modeling industry.
From The Verge • Nov. 9, 2021
On a September morning in SoHo, the airy, light-filled Inamorata office was filled with women.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021
If you assist him no better than you have done me, he may stay long enough for his Inamorata.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
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