Other forms: casanovas
A casanova is a man famous for his many love affairs. A bit of a casanova, the office casanova, play the casanova.
It is half-admiring and half-mocking, and it says more about the reputation than the conduct. The name is that of an eighteenth-century Venetian whose memoirs made him the type.
1nouncasanovaA man famous for his many love affairs.
“He had a casanova's reputation and none of the charm to support it.”
casanova is a person.