Antonyms for lover

Grammar : Noun

Spell : luhv-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlʌv ər

Definition of lover

Origin : 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.

noun person having sexual relationship

Example sentences :

Her lover played upon his flute, while she leaned against a tree and listened.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

He was older than I, experienced with women—a lover of women, I came to understand in time.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

If it be possible for so universal a lover to be confined so long to one object?
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Calvert, my friend, is a lover as well as a painter of nature.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

The lover wrestled with Providence for his foreshadowed bliss.
Extract from : « The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And have you not before now said, that nothing is so penetrating as the eye of a lover who has vanity?
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

He is a lover of truth, and advocates the only way to arrive at it, which is by unfettered thought.
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

Perhaps "love" is left to the fervent vocabulary of the lover.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Shakespeare was almost as well content, it appears, to play the lover as to play the Duke.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

Though a lover and possessed by his mistress Shakespeare was still an artist.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

Synonyms for lover

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