What's the difference between player (slang) and womanizer?

[guliver]

So, this is my question: What's the difference between player (slang) and womanizer?
Could both be synonyms?
And how about "lady-killer"? Is player "more like" lady-killer than womanizer?

 

[bhaisahab]

So, this is my question: What's the difference between player (slang) and womanizer?
Could both be synonyms?
And how about "lady-killer"? Is player "more like" lady-killer than womanizer?

In my dialect of English, "player" has a completely different meaning to "womaniser" and "lady-killer" is very dated.

 

[Offroad]

So, this is my question: What's the difference between player (slang) and womanizer?
Could both be synonyms?
And how about "lady-killer"? Is player "more like" lady-killer than womanizer?

[Not a teacher]
As I understand it, no, they are not synonyms.
A 'player' is someone who is 'detached', meaning he or she doesn't care much about the partner, which doesn't imply he or she sleeps around.
A 'womanizer' is a man (never heard a woman be called that) who sleeps around.

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[emsr2d2]

Whilst I don't think they're synonymous, I can see a connection.

John: I gather Dave picked up another girl in the club last night.
Peter: Yup, that's true. That guy is a real player!

Whilst I don't necessarily think that it makes him a womaniser just because he might go out on a Saturday night and have a one-night stand, I can see how the two could have similar definitions.

 

[bhaisahab]

I was completely unaware of the use of "player" in that context.

 

[5jj]

I was completely unaware of the use of "player" in that context.

So was I. Some of us are not quite so young as we were once.

 

[guliver]

So, player is like lady killer nowadays, right???

 

[emsr2d2]

So, player is like lady killer nowadays, right???

Where did any of us say that?

 

[guliver]

Nobody said that. It was just what I thought! Trying to understand the difference among these three words in contexts and situations and the difference of each one. And another word came out of my mind: Pick up artist! And it's to difficult to understand the difference among all of them to those who is studying English as a second language!!!

 

[emsr2d2]

I would say that someone like George Clooney is a "ladykiller" - a charming, handsome man who plenty of women would throw themselves at in a heartbeat.

 

[probus]

The following is lifted (with the usual cautions) from urbandictionary.com. The grammar has been corrected as well.

Player: A male who is skilled at manipulating ("playing") others, and especially at seducing women by pretending to care about them, when in reality he is only interested in sex. Possibly derived from the phrases "play him for a fool", or "play him like a violin". The term was popularized by hip-hop culture, but was commonly recognized among urban American blacks by the 1970s.