Lover

/ˈlʌvɚ/ · noun

Meaning

One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
2. A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
3. A person who loves something.
4. (West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.
5. Obsolete form of louver.

Example Sentences

[…]loue is blinde, and louers cannot ſee / The pretty follies that themſelues commit,[…]

Well there's a wide wide world of noble causes / And lovely landscapes to discover / But all I really want to do right now / Is find another lover

This is for the lover in you (take this ring) / This ring (It means I'll always be true) / This is (how we'll start love anew) This time (were gonna last forever)

When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.

Now, there's one in California who's been cursing my name / 'Cause I found me a better lover in the UK, hey, hey / Until I made my getaway

We can only hurt each other the way that lovers can / So where do we go, where do we hide now?

2018 January 17, "Libra Woman: Personality Traits: Love & More", Astrology.com http://www.astrology.com/libra-woman.html A Libra woman seems to always be in love - either with her long term partner or with an ever-changing series of rotating lovers.

Be my bad boy, be my man / Be my weekend lover, but don't be my friend / You can be my bad boy, but understand / That I don't need you in my life again

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• lovers
• lovyer

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