Definitions for lover
ˈlʌv ərlover

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. lovernoun

   a person who loves someone or is loved by someone

2. fan, buff, devotee, lovernoun

   an ardent follower and admirer

3. lovernoun

   a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lovernoun

   One who is involved in a sexual relationship with another; as, she took a lover.

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. lovernoun

   A person who loves another person, a sweetheart.

2. lovernoun

   A sexual partner.

3. lovernoun

   A person who loves something; connoisseur.

4. Etymology: From lover, lovyere, derivative of loven, lovien, equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lovernoun

   Etymology: from love.

   1. One who is in 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.

   2. A friend; one who regards with kindness.

   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.

   3. One who likes any thing.

   To be good and gracious, and a lover of knowledge, are amiable things. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. Lovernoun

   one who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex

2. 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

3. Lovernoun

   one who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music

4. Lovernoun

   alt. of Lovery

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lover

   an obsolete form of louvre.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Person
   • Significant Other

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lover' in Nouns Frequency: #1407

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How to pronounce lover?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say lover in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lover in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lover in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of lover in a Sentence

1. Proverb:

   When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

2. Tom Robbins:

   The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   All mankind love a lover.

4. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

5. Sunny Hostin:

   I think you do it and it's something that I tell my girlfriends because ... we also don't need him to go somewhere else, i think that in a marriage you do a lot of things that you may not be in the mood for. Am I really in the mood to cook tonight? Am I really in the mood to listen to your story about work? ... No, and so even if I'm not in the mood, I think that as a friend, as a lover, as a partner, you make sure you get in the mood.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lover
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=lover
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lover
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lover
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lover
6. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lover
8. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lover
9. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=lover
10. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=lover
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
12. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lover