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
- 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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