Word Finder - lover

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One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse.

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A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.

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A person who loves something.

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a lover of fine wines

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(with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.

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All right, me lover?

She's as upset as a jilted lover over Quinn's attitude and I'm afraid she's going to do something irrational.

In fact, he wasn't much of a lover at all.

His last lover – the only other he'd ever taken – had been the opposite of Harmony.

Her demon lover was gone and her body covered with a sheet.

You treat me like a spurned lover.

If you were anywhere near the lover that you are a politician we wouldn't be having this argument.

On Manuel's death, Maria, who had been immured in a convent under the name of Xene, had herself proclaimed regent (1179-1180), and handing over her son to evil counsellors, who encouraged him in every vice, supported the government of Alexius the protosebastos (nephew of Manuel), who was supposed to be her lover.

And to this day, millions of people remember and honor the name of Gautama, as that of the great lover of men.

Are you the jilted lover?

Catherine would have preferred to control the country through a vassal sovereign of the type of Stanislaus Poniatowski, the old lover whose election she secured in 1763.

She disgraced herself by living with her last lover, Zubov, when she was a woman of sixty-seven, trusting him with power and lavishing public money on him.

But as heir to the throne he had a right to resent the degradation of the crown he was to inherit, and the power of a favourite who was his mother's lover.

In the same month, twenty-five years afterwards, the execution of his mistress, according to the verdict of her contemporaries in France, avenged the blood of a lover who had died without uttering a word to realize the apprehension which (according to Knox) had before his trial impelled her to desire her brother "that, as he loved her, he would slay Chastelard, and let him never speak word."

Philip was a great lover of pomp and luxury and a friend of letters, being the patron of Georges Chastelain, Olivier de la Marche and Antoine de la Salle, and the founder of the collection of MSS.

But though Guenevere has changed her lover, the tradition of her infidelity is of much earlier date and formed a part of the primitive Arthurian legend.

Another tradition represents Actaeon as the lover of Semele, and his death as due to the jealousy of Artemis.

The duc de Choiseul, who refused to acknowledge her, was disgraced in 1771; and the duc d'Aiguillon, who had the reputation of being her lover, took his place, and in concert with her governed the monarch.

Though a passionate lover of liberty, he hoped to secure the freedom of France and her monarchy at the same time.

She became a widow in 1533, but soon replaced her husband by a more illustrious lover, the king's second son, Henry, who became dauphin in 1536.

They also make terrific gifts for the wine lover.

Hope that you'll start accepting me as your husband - your mate; not just a lover.

Fitzgerald will prove we're seeing each other and anything you say is a lie to protect your lover.

Alex had always been an ardent lover.

He was no longer an ardent lover.

The light from the water was bright enough to show who stood on the opposite shore, caught in what looked like a lover's embrace.

Not to interrupt this lover's spat, but I could use a glass of wine.

Gabriel's lover and master, the deity Death, materialized beside him at the Oracle's altar in the center of an ancient fortress in the Sanctuary.

You.ve been my lover for ages, and I am doing you a favor.

He.d lost his lover, Jade, that way, a sacrifice that still stung.

On her walks at Lover's Lane near Evelyn's row house, she'd often seen couples entranced by the rhythmic movement of waves stand at a railing, the man's arms wrapped around the woman in front of him, his chin on her head.

Moisture clung to her skin as she started down the familiar path to Lover's Lane.

A moment's hesitation, a quick hand on the door knob, and Edith Shipton disappeared into the bedroom of her long ago lover.

He could hear the strains of some lost cowboy lover coming from Fred's room, a sure sign the door to the old man's room was open.

You want me to believe you killed my lover to protect me, never told me she was a demon-spy, and you went willingly to Hell.  It's ridiculous, Rhyn, even for you!

Rhyn's mortal was convinced of this.  She said Gabriel had been the lover of Death for thousands of years.

But the new Death is her lover.  That makes her someone of interest to me.

Fred's answer came just as the music switched to a shrill voice pleading for her lover to come back to the hills.

She told me numerous times what a great lover he was – like I wanted to know, she added sarcastically.

Whatever his ranking of lover, Alex at least knew she was inexperienced, so hopefully he wouldn't be expecting too much.

For the first time she thought of him as a lover.

Alex was a good lover - in more ways than one.

You're mine now, and so is your lover.

The tightness that filled his chest whenever he thought of his betrayer and lover unfurled.

The moon is a fickle lover, like a beautiful woman…she gives her whole heart but once a month and leaves you before dawn…why fear you the night?

For a long moment she savored the feel of him against her and wondered what it would be like to be this man's lover instead of his enemy.

He was sweet and thoughtful, protective and an ardent lover.

Apparently their Collie had a secret lover.

Of these, Thetis and Amphitrite rule the sea according to the legend of different localities; Galatea is a Sicilian figure, who plays with and deludes her rustic lover of the shore, Polyphemus.

She was jealous as a lover of the child's affection, and the struggle between the mother and grandmother was one of the bitterest of Aurore's childish troubles.

A truer estimate is that of Sainte-Beuve, her intimate friend for more than thirty years, but never her lover.