lover
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.
a person who loves, especially a person who has or shows a warm and general affectionate regard for others: a lover of humankind.
Origin of lover
1Other words for lover
Other words from lover
- lov·er·less, adjective
- lov·er·like, adjective
- non·lov·er, noun
Words that may be confused with lover
Other definitions for Lover (2 of 2)
Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
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How to use lover in a sentence
Every pulse of loverlike feeling which had not been stilled during Eustacia's lifetime had gone into the grave with her.
Return of the Native | Thomas HardyThe Captain, addressing her in a simpering, loverlike voice, had importuned her to change her cabin.
My Danish Sweetheart, Volume 3 of 3 | William Clark RussellHe did not think of the demonstration as necessarily loverlike.
Destiny | Charles Neville BuckHusbands would be quite loverlike and attentive, in their anxiety to outdo the other fellow.
Modern marriage and how to bear it | Maud Churton BrabyThey stood looking at the coast, and Jasper lost himself in a loverlike trance.
'Twixt Land & Sea | Joseph Conrad
British Dictionary definitions for lover
/ (ˈlʌvə) /
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
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