Antonyms for lovers

Grammar : Noun

Spell : luhv-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlʌv ər

Definition of lovers

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 :

It isn't gowns that lovers love, but what bellies out the gowns.
Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke

In Sonnet 136 he prays her to allow him to be one of her lovers.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

And certainly, if his place is among the poets, he is the leader of all the lovers.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

And suspicion grew to certainty that she and Reid were lovers.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

We girls used to wonder what the lovers talked about while they waited for the traitor.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

"What a lot of bosh is talked about lovers," his comment ran.
Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

Lovers of aerial navigation have otherwise not much left to wish for.
Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards

It was a heavy night, and in it there was no place for love or lovers' tenderness.
Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard

Yet lovers in real life are, so far as I have observed them, bores.
Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells

It was they who first questioned the petals of flowers for their lovers' loyalty.
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

Synonyms for lovers

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