lover

Definitions

1. A person who loves another; a sweetheart.
SYNONYMS: admirer; adorer; aficionado; amorist; beau; beloved; boyfriend; cavalier; cicisbeo; cohabitant; cohabitee; companion; consort; courter; darling; date; dear; dearest; dotard; escort; fan; fan club; fellow; fiancé(e); flame; flirt; follower; gallant; girlfriend; idolizer; inamorata; inamorato; Juliet; ladylove; live-in; love; lover boy; man; mistress; over; paramour; petitioner; philanderer; Romeo; significant other; solicitor; spouse; squire; steady; suer; suitor; suppliant; swain; sweetheart; sweetie; true love (truelove); valentine; vamp; votary; woman; wooer; worshipper; young man; young woman.

QUOTES:

(1) Zouzou (Josephine Baker) in ZouZou (1934): ' All lovers are handsome.'

(2) The Khan's daughter (Michelle Mercier) in Soldiers of Fortune (1970): ' Fate smiles on lovers and thieves.'

2. A sexual partner.

3. A ladies' man; a seducer of women. See ladies' man and philanderer for synonyms.

QUOTE: Henny Youngman: ' All the world loves a lover - except her husband.'

4. The third person in a love triangle.

QUOTE: Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor) and Brick (Paul Newman) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958):
-- Maggie: ' Do you know how I feel? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.'
-- Brick: ' Then jump off the roof, Maggie. Jump off it now. Cats jump off roofs and they land uninjured. Do it. Jump.'
-- Maggie: ' Jump where? Into what? '
-- Brick: ' Take a lover.'

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