lover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌvɚ/
ipa: /ˈlʌvə/
rhymes: -ʌvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lovers
form: lovyer
Etymology: From Middle English lovere, luffer, lufere, equivalent to love + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […]loue is blinde, and louers cannot ſee / The pretty follies that themſelues commit,[…]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], page 170, column 2:
text: 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
ref: 1976, Joni Mitchell, “Song For Sharon”, in Hejira:
text: 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)
ref: 1980, Shalamar, “This Is For The Lover In You”, in Three For Love:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 March 11, Adam Markovitz, “Matt Damon on (maybe) returning to ‘Bourne’ and playing Liberace’s lover”, in CNN:
text: 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
ref: 2014 September 23, Elle King, Dave Bassett, “Ex's & Oh's”, in Love Stuff, performed by Elle King:
text: We can only hurt each other the way that lovers can / So where do we go, where do we hide now?
ref: 2016, David Boulter, Stuart A. Staples, “Like Only Lovers Can”, in The Waiting Room, performed by Tindersticks:
synonyms: love
love interest
spouse
sweetheart
significant other
glosses: One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
examples: text: 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
ref: 2006, Peifer Yann, Reuter Manuel, “Bad Boy”, in Everytime^([sic]) We Touch, performed by Cascada, →OCLC:
text: 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.
text: I'm up and jaws are on the floor
Lovers in the bathroom and a line outside the door
ref: 2020 April 3, Chappell Roan, Dan Nigro, “Pink Pony Club”performed by Chappell Roan:
synonyms: word: bedfellow
word: bedmate
word: fuck
word: hookup
word: lover
word: paramour
word: mate
word: root
word: sex partner
word: sexual partner
glosses: A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
examples: text: a lover of fine wines
text: a lover of his/her own country
text: But though a conscientious disciplinarian he was no lover of authority for mere authority's sake.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XVIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 279:
text: Sunday is 420 day, when lovers of marijuana get together to celebrate their fondness for weed.
ref: 2025 April 20, Sandee LaMotte, “Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years, study finds”, in CNN:
synonyms: connoisseur
glosses: A person who loves something.
examples: text: All right, my lover?
glosses: An informal term of address for any friend.
raw_tags: with "my"
Synonyms: word: admirer
word: adorer
word: baby
word: beloved
word: courter
word: crush
word: darling
word: enamorado
word: flame
word: follower
word: leman
word: loteby
word: love
word: love interest
word: lover
word: paramour
word: sparker
word: sweetheart
word: truelove
word: wooer
Hyponyms: word: Female
word: girlfriend
word: honey
word: inamorata
word: ladylove
word: lovergirl
word: mistress
word: woman
word: kept woman
word: Male
word: amoroso
word: beau
word: cicisbeo
word: boyfriend
word: inamorato
word: kept man
word: loverboy
word: spark
word: suitor
word: swain
word: young man
word: Non-binary
word: enbyfriend
word: theyfriend
Derived terms: word: Bambi-lover
word: birdlover
word: boylover
word: Canby's mountain lover
word: catlover
word: childlover
word: cyberlover
word: doglover
word: girllover
word: homolover
word: loverboy
word: loverdom
word: lovered
word: loveress
word: lovergirl
word: loverhood
word: loverless
word: loverlike
word: loverly
word: loverman
word: loverwise
word: manlover
word: motherlover
word: nonlover
word: womanlover
word: word lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: alright me lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: alright my lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: Bambi lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: book lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: booklover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: butt lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: diaper lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: enemies-to-lovers
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: free lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: friends-to-lovers
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: fun-lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: land-lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: Latin lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: lover boy
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: lover man
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: lover-man
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: lover's lane
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: lovers' lane
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: lovers rock
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: mountain lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: nature lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: nature-lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: nigger lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: nigger-lover
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: word-lover
Related terms: word: sexual partner
word: libertine