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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lover
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dog lover (=someone who loves dogs)
▪ Britain is a nation of dog lovers.
a music lover
▪ Her recordings delighted music lovers.
animal lover (=someone who likes animals)
▪ Beth is an animal lover.
jealous husband/wife/lover etc
long-time friend/lover etc
star-crossed lovers (=people who love each other but cannot be together)
▪ star-crossed lovers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ He was a great lover of cats.
▪ Of course, making a rational decision about when to have children is asking a great deal of lovers.
▪ I am no great lover or defender of the legal profession.
▪ We are the greatest lovers in the world.
▪ Show me the tyrants who have been great lovers.
▪ Tough, quick of temper, a great lover, whose seminal-sac was ever full.
▪ He was still the great lover, and the woman beside him was the reason for his constant philandering.
jealous
▪ A jealous lover certainly would be acting on his own.
young
▪ The thought came back of the two as young lovers.
▪ The death of two young lovers was the cause.
▪ Three pairs of young lovers walked by, hand in hand, whispering dreams of emigration.
▪ According to legend they were young lovers whom the druids forbade to marry.
▪ It's not the young lovers I marvel at, but the older ones, such as one couple I see regularly.
▪ What on earth was wrong with a woman having a younger lover?
▪ It was a very sad play, because the young lovers die at the end.
▪ Can a younger lover beat the ageing blues - or would a change of style do the trick for you?
■ NOUN
animal
▪ Actress and animal lover, Damaris Hayman is leading a campaign to keep the animal collection in the Park.
▪ And, unlike some animal lovers, she likes people.
▪ Perhaps it was the universal bond between animal lovers and vets that made it so easy to become part of the community.
▪ Would that as many animal lovers were as quick to speak and defend dumb animals instead of staying silent as so many do.
▪ At Beckford in Worcestershire fifty hedgehogs have been brought in by worried animal lovers.
▪ An adventurer and an animal lover, Goodall was also 23 and beautiful.
▪ But the plan was slammed by animal lovers yesterday.
▪ Shocked animal lovers have protested to the ministry, but the tests are to go ahead.
art
▪ Royal art on show ART lovers will tomorrow be able to view more than 30 watercolours painted by Prince Charles.
▪ I'd heard he was an art lover.
▪ For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it.
music
▪ He was not a music lover, nor was he particularly attracted by any cultural activity.
▪ At last, a clear picture of music lovers and lovers.
▪ A must for all Guinness and music lovers.
▪ Most music lovers assume the convention was widely established at least by the early days of this century.
▪ A music lover to the core, Nanny couldn't help trotting over to inspect it.
▪ But by noW Slaughter, always a music lover, was sure he wanted to be in the record business.
▪ A keen music lover he was also honorary general secretary of the Darlington Music Festival which finished at the weekend.
▪ Now music lovers have come to the choirs rescue.
■ VERB
become
▪ Nahum was becoming a feverishly energetic lover.
▪ They became roommates, not lovers.
▪ From being polite strangers they had become like sparring lovers speaking their minds with a familiarity which was extraordinary in its intensity.
▪ They meet in a daily group therapy session, and very quickly become lovers.
▪ Penry did use persuasion on Leonora next time they met, but it had nothing to do with becoming her lover.
▪ Florence liked to drink and laugh as Margarett did, and eventually the two became lovers.
▪ They became friends, then lovers, and finally, in 1809, husband and wife.
▪ A few nights later, they became lovers.
lose
▪ However, the reverse of this experience was reported to me by a woman who lost her lover in a drowning accident.
▪ They've probably lost their husbands or lovers in the war, they're alone and frightened.
▪ I had gained a poet but was losing a lover, perhaps the last I would ever know.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
live-in lover/boyfriend etc
▪ She had a live-in boyfriend to whom she devoted most of her time and energy.
▪ She met her live-in boyfriend on-line.
▪ She took no new live-in lover, and as far as she was aware, neither did Charles.
▪ Two divorces, a long string of live-in boyfriends.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lovers of night life won't be able to resist the many nightclubs in the area.
▪ A few nights later, they became lovers.
▪ an opera lover
▪ Arabella has had many lovers.
▪ Every jazz lover dreams of visiting New Orleans.
▪ Kilpatrick claims that she and the congressman were once lovers.
▪ Over her lifetime, Catherine had many lovers.
▪ That night she received a call from her lover.
▪ We are a nation of animal lovers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Created so by Ted Mosse, lover of uniforms, not too honest, deceased.
▪ In the same way it can reassure a timid lover, or comfort a woman weak from childbirth.
▪ Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return.
▪ One lucky racing lover will own a horse for the jumps or the flat season.
▪ Probably racing on to meet her lover, he thought.
▪ The lover of one of his former students died last week.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lover

Louver \Lou"ver\, Louvre \Lou"vre\, n. [OE. lover, OF. lover, lovier; or l'ouvert the opening, fr. overt, ouvert, p. p. of ovrir, ouvrir, to open, F. ouvrir. Cf. Overt.] (Arch.) A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a) . [Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer.]

2. Same as louver boards, below

3. A set of slats resembling louver boards, arranged in a vertical row and attached at each slat end to a frame inserted in or part of a door or window; the slats may be made of wood, plastic, or metal, and the angle of inclination of the slats may be adjustable simultaneously, to allow more or less light or air into the enclosure.

Louver boards or Louver boarding, the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc.

Louver work, slatted work.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lover

early 13c., agent noun from love (v.). Old English had lufend for male lovers, lufestre for women. Meaning "one who has a predilection for" (a thing, concept, pursuit, etc.) is mid-14c. As a form of address to a lover, from 1911. Related: Loverly.

Wiktionary
lover

n. 1 One who love and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend. 2 A sexual partner. 3 A person who love something. 4 (label en West Country with "my") (non-gloss definition: An informal term of address for any friend.)

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WordNet
lover

  1. n. a person who loves or is loved

  2. an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff, devotee]

  3. a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

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Wikipedia
Lover (clothing)

Lover is an Australian fashion label launched in 2001 by designers Susien Chong and Nic Briand. The label began as a weekend stall at Bondi Markets with a ten-piece collection of random separates. Since then, Lover has risen to prominence in Australia and internationally.

Lover

Lover or Lovers may also refer to:

Lover (song)

"Lover" is a popular song written by Richard Rodgers, with words by Lorenz Hart. It was featured in the movie Love Me Tonight ( 1932) sung by Jeanette MacDonald. 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. Peggy Lee's 1952 version 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!. In 1954, the song featured importantly in both Billy Wilder's Sabrina and in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Additionally, John Coltrane recorded a version of the song in 1957, which appeared on his album "Last Trane", which was released in 1965.

Lover (novel)

Lover is a lesbian feminist novel by Bertha Harris, published in 1976 by Daughters, Inc., a Vermont small press dedicated to women's fiction. It is considered Harris's most ambitious work, and has been compared to Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and the stories of Jane Bowles. Harris has said that it was written "straight from the libido, while I was madly in love, and liberated by the lesbian cultural movement of the mid-1970s."

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Usage examples of "lover".

Beauty is abidingly self-enfolded but its lovers, the Many, loving it as an entire, possess it as an entire when they attain, for it was an entire that they loved.

For This, the Beauty supreme, the absolute, and the primal, fashions Its lovers to Beauty and makes them also worthy of love.

I thought I should confound you by accepting your invitation, as I knew Greppi was your lover.

Any lover who knows what his feelings were when he found himself with the woman he adored and with the fear that it was for the last time, will easily imagine my feelings during the last hours that I expected ever to spend with my two charming mistresses.

I determined to dissemble, hoping that I should never see the adventurous lover again, and that thus all would be as if it had never happened.

In youth he made of Ceyx and Alcyon, And since then he hath spoke of every one These noble wives, and these lovers eke.

Her daring lover had returned to her, banishing the nervous amnesiac of a few moments ago, and she wanted to sing from both relief and fresh desire.

Halfway through the third Act, Belinda pretended to woo Lackwit, and to allow him to woo her, her true lover, Giovanni Amoroso, being concealed behind a hedge to enjoy the fun.

In Bologna, excited by an excellent supper and by the amorous passion which was every hour burning more fiercely in me, I asked her by what singular adventure she had become the friend of the honest fellow who looked her father rather than her lover.

When she had exhausted her amorous fury she threw herself into a bath, then came back, drank a bottle of Malmsey Madeira, and finally made her brutal lover drink till he fell on to the floor.

I was not really amorous of her, I had no difficulty in playing the part of the timid lover.

I embraced the lover, and then more amorously I performed the same office for the mistress, and skewed them my purse full of gold, telling them it was at their service.

Lovers mutter wetly to each other and grapple with an abandon that still appalled her.

He became an Apparitor when his immediate superior died in the arms of a shared lover.

It turns out, of course, that Armado is himself in love with Jaquenetta, and he displays this in the approved manner of the puling stage lover.