lover

[LovĀ·er]

A person who loves someone or is loved by someone

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One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.

Noun
a person who loves or is loved

Noun
a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

Noun
an ardent follower and admirer


n.
One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.

n.
A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.

n.
One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music.

n.
Alt. of Lovery


Lover

Lov"er , n. 1. One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. Gower.
Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit.
2. A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.
I slew my best lover for the good of Rome.
3. One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music. "A lover of knowledge." T. Burnet.

Lover, Lovery

Lo"ver , Lo"ver*y , n. See Louver. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.

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Usage Examples

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift.

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

All mankind love a lover.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

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