1 a partner in a sexual relationship outside marriage:
He denied that he was her lover. * We were lovers for several years. * The park was full of young lovers holding hands.
2 (often in compounds) somebody who likes or enjoys a particular thing:
a lover of music * an art-lover * a nature-lover
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lover is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lover a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lover is tagged as noun.
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