Definitions for Lover
ˈlʌv ərlover

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. lovernoun

   a person who loves someone or is loved by someone

2. fan, buff, devotee, lovernoun

   an ardent follower and admirer

3. lovernoun

   a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lovernoun

   One who is involved in a sexual relationship with another; as, she took a lover.

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. lovernoun

   A person who loves another person, a sweetheart.

2. lovernoun

   A sexual partner.

3. lovernoun

   A person who loves something; connoisseur.

4. Etymology: From lover, lovyere, derivative of loven, lovien, equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lovernoun

   Etymology: from love.

   1. One who is in love.

   Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
   The pretty follies that themselves commit. William Shakespeare.

   Let it be never said, that he whose breast
   Is fill’d with love, should break a lover’s rest. Dryden.

   2. A friend; one who regards with kindness.

   Your brother and his lover have embrac’d. William Shakespeare.

   I tell thee, fellow,
   Thy general is my lover: I have been
   The book of his good act, whence men have read
   His fame unparallel’d haply amplified. William Shakespeare.

   3. One who likes any thing.

   To be good and gracious, and a lover of knowledge, are amiable things. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. Lovernoun

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

2. Lovernoun

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

3. Lovernoun

   one who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music

4. Lovernoun

   alt. of Lovery

FreebaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lover

   "Lover" is a popular song written by Richard Rodgers, with words by Lorenz Hart. It was featured in the movie Love Me Tonight. Les Paul's version was a guitar instrumental released by Capitol Records in 1948. It has a french title Partout Toi. Frank Sinatra has recorded it twice in 1950 and 1961 but Peggy Lee took ownership in 1952 and it featured in that year's version of the movie The Jazz Singer which she appeared in.Cliff Richard has recorded it on his album Listen to Cliff!.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lover

   an obsolete form of louvre.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LOVER

   An ardent admirer who says, "Yes, dearest, I will shovel the snow of the lake so that we can go skating!" and, after marriage remarks, "What! Shovel the snow off the walk for you? Well, I should say not! I'm no chore boy." Hell is paved with good intentions--also asbestos. M A fool and his wife are soon parted. See Alimony. MAGAZINE A receptacle for explosives, literary or mechanical.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LOVER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lover is ranked #49999 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Lover surname appeared 419 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lover.
   
   58.7% or 246 total occurrences were White.
   33.6% or 141 total occurrences were Black.
   4.7% or 20 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.6% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Person
   • Significant Other

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Lover' in Nouns Frequency: #1407

How to pronounce Lover?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Lover in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Lover in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Lover in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Lover in a Sentence

1. Jimmy Evans:

   I want people to see him as this incredible musician slash athlete slash cat lover slash straight-A student. while my child is trans, and he's put in a box of being a trans person, he's so much more than that label.

2. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Life is an endless story of lover and beloved.

3. Jonas Larsen:

   It just seems like they're just doing a lot, and if we throw enough against the wall something will stick, in a way, that has sort of taken the specialness of the stand-up special away by doing volume -- it's not about quality and curation, it's about filling shelves. To me, being a lover of great comedy, it just doesn't excite me. It doesn't make me think that they're onto something.

4. Bharavi:

   A woman will not throw away a garland, though soiled, which her lover gave: not in the object lies a present?s worth, but in the love which it was meant to mark.

5. Gaston Bachelard:

   Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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