What does lover mean?
Definitions for lover
ˈlʌv ərlover
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word lover.
Princeton's WordNet
lovernoun
a person who loves someone or is loved by someone
fan, buff, devotee, lovernoun
an ardent follower and admirer
lovernoun
a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage
GCIDE
Lovernoun
One who is involved in a sexual relationship with another; as, she took a lover.
Wiktionary
lovernoun
A person who loves another person, a sweetheart.
lovernoun
A sexual partner.
lovernoun
A person who loves something; connoisseur.
Etymology: From lover, lovyere, derivative of loven, lovien, equivalent to.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Lovernoun
Etymology: from 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.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.To be good and gracious, and a lover of knowledge, are amiable things. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.
Wikipedia
Lover
My Kinda Lover is a rock song written and performed by American Hard Rock singer and guitarist Billy Squier. It was the third and final single released from his Triple Platinum 1981 album Don't Say No, following "In the Dark". It peaked at number 45 on the United States Billboard Hot 100, and number 43 on the Cash Box Top 100 chart in early 1982. It also reached number 31 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Rapper Eminem sampled My Kinda Lover on his 2014 song Shady XV.
ChatGPT
lover
A lover is a person who is in a romantic or passionate relationship with another person, typically characterized by a strong emotional and physical attraction. It implies a deep affection, intimacy, and desire for another individual. A lover can refer to someone in a committed relationship, someone engaged in a casual relationship, or even someone illicitly involved with another person outside of a committed partnership.
Webster Dictionary
Lovernoun
one who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex
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
Lovernoun
one who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music
Lovernoun
alt. of Lovery
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
Lover
an obsolete form of louvre.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
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 Records
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.
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British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'lover' in Nouns Frequency: #1407
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lover in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lover in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of lover in a Sentence
A real actor can’t love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover and doesn’t know how to love someone for the real.
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
She was a beautiful and complex woman: A sister, a daughter, a wife, a lover. Human. Her life has for too long been overshadowed by the tragedy orchestrated by a raging psychopath, now, more than ever, we feel it is important to focus on the woman — to reaffirm the voice of Sharon Tate — and to take away the megaphone from the maniac.
The crippling economics of Broadway have long since ushered in the era of downsized casts and mini-orchestras, so the sheer spectacle value of an opulently costumed 50-member troupe, accompanied by 29 musicians in the pit, is enough to make a musical-theater lover's head explode.
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- حبيبArabic
- milenecCzech
- elskerDanish
- LiebhaberGerman
- εραστήςGreek
- amantoEsperanto
- amanteSpanish
- عاشقPersian
- rakastajaFinnish
- amoureuxFrench
- leannánIrish
- प्रेमीHindi
- szeretőHungarian
- սիրահարArmenian
- kekasihIndonesian
- amanteItalian
- מְאַהֵבHebrew
- 恋人Japanese
- ಪ್ರೇಮಿKannada
- 연인Korean
- amatorLatin
- minnaarDutch
- loverNorwegian
- kochanekPolish
- amantePortuguese
- amantRomanian
- любовникRussian
- vännenSwedish
- காதலன்Tamil
- ప్రేమికుడుTelugu
- คนรักThai
- sevgiliTurkish
- коханецьUkrainian
- عاشقUrdu
- người yêuVietnamese
- ליבהאָבערYiddish
- 情人Chinese
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