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lover
1[ luhv-er ]
noun
- a person who is in love with another.
- a person who has a sexual or romantic relationship with another.
- a person with whom one conducts an extramarital sexual affair.
- a person who has a strong enjoyment or liking for something, as specified:
a lover of music.
Synonyms: fan, enthusiast, devotee
- a person who loves, especially a person who has or shows a warm and general affectionate regard for others:
a lover of humankind.
Lover
2[ luhv-er ]
noun
- Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
lover
/ ˈlʌvə /
noun
- a person, now esp a man, who has an extramarital or premarital sexual relationship with another person
- often plural either of the two people involved in a love affair
- someone who loves a specified person or thing
a lover of music
- ( in combination )
a music-lover
a cat-lover
Other Words From
- lover·less adjective
- lover·like adjective
- non·lover noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Fortunately, a lot of board game lovers are also makers, and the internet is full of 3D-printed solutions that will boost your gaming experience and help avert any organizational disasters.
For snow lovers, it greatly cuts down snow accumulation totals.
Bodine urged county leaders to use a Virginia law passed last year — one intended to preserve mature trees to help absorb runoff that ends up in the Chesapeake Bay — to bring tree lovers some relief.
For snow lovers deprived so frequently this winter, Thursday morning’s sleet fest was a colossal disappointment.
Cousins, lovers, and friends who let people with records visit their home were evicted, too.
This same outlet worked the phrase “engagement to toyboy lover” into the headline of their article on Fry.
But there are a lot of women who go to these places and once they go to the inside, they find a lover.
He was a great lover of the navy, and he liked me because of it.
I have to confess, I had no idea that Whitney had a rumored gay lover before reading about your role in this movie.
“The golden bridge for the departing lover I have always, I hope, provided when it became necessary,” he says.
The pictures of flowers which this artist paints prove her to be a devoted lover of nature.
Felipe watched over her as a lover might; her great mournful eyes followed his every motion.
Gordon, however, had never been a lover, and if Bernard noted Angela's gravity it was not because he felt jealous.
It is a further refinement when the staunch little lover of liberty sets about "easing" the pressure of commands.
Several times during dinner I glanced at Ethne, but it was easy to see that all her attention was taken up by her lover.
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