lover:
1. A person who loves another; a sweetheart .SYNONYMS: admirer ; adorer; aficionado; amorist ; beau; beloved ; boyfriend; cavalier ; cicisbeo; cohabitant; cohabitee; companion ; consort ; courter; darling ; date ; dear; dearest; dotard; escort ; fan; fan club ; fellow; fiancé(e); flame ; flirt ; follower; gallant ; girlfriend ; idolizer; inamorata ; inamorato ; Juliet; ladylove ; live-in; love ; lover-boy ; man ; mistress ; over; paramour ; petitioner; philanderer ; Romeo ; significant-other ; solicitor; spouse ; squire; steady ; suer; suitor; suppliant; swain; sweetheart ; sweetie ; true-love (truelove); valentine ; vamp ; votary; woman ; wooer; worshipper; young man ; young woman .
QUOTES:
(1) Zouzou (Josephine Baker) in ZouZou (1934): ' All lovers are handsome .'
(2) The Khan's daughter (Michelle Mercier) in Soldiers of Fortune (1970): ' Fate smiles on lovers and thieves .'
2. A sexual partner .
3. A ladies'-man ; a seducer of women. See ladies'-man and philanderer for synonyms.
QUOTE: Henny Youngman: ' All the world loves a lover - except her husband .'
4. The third person in a love triangle .
QUOTE: Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor) and Brick (Paul Newman) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958):
-- Maggie: ' Do you know how I feel? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof .'
-- Brick: ' Then jump off-the-roof , Maggie. Jump off it now. Cats jump off roofs and they land uninjured. Do it . Jump .'
-- Maggie: ' Jump where? Into what? '
-- Brick: ' Take a lover .'
Synonyms: bit-of-beef, a-bit-of-bouncy-bouncy, a bit of business, a bit of bum-dancing, a-bit-of-butt, a-bit-of-cauliflower, a bit of cock-fighting, a-bit-of-crumpet, a-bit-of-cuddle, a bit of cunt, a bit of curly greens, a-bit-of-fat, a bit of fish, a-bit-of-flat, a-bit-of-fork, a-bit-of-front-door-work, a-bit-of-fun, a-bit-of-hair, a-bit-of-how's-yer-father, a-bit-of-it, a-bit-of-nifty, a-bit-of-nobble, a-bit-of-nookey, a-bit-of-pork, a bit of quimsy, a-bit-of-raspberry, a-bit-of-rough, a-bit-of-rumpty-tumpty, a-bit-of-rumpy-bumpy, a-bit-of-rumpy-pumpy, a-bit-of-snug, a-bit-of-the-other, a-bit-of-skin, a-bit-of-snug-for-a-bit-of-stiff, a-bit-of-stiff, a-bit-of-the-old-in-and-out, a bit on a / the fork, a-dash-up-the-channel, a-knee-trembler, a little game of hide-the-sausage, a-little-o-the-one-with-tother, a-little-one-on-one, a piece of crumpet, a-poke-in-the-whiskers, a-poke-through-the-whiskers, a-spot-of-Cupids-archery, a spot hard breathing, a-squeeze-and-a-squirt, accommodate, act, the, act-of-androgynation, act-of-darkness, act-of-generation, act-of-kind, act-of-love, act-of-pleasure, act-of-shame, act-of-sport, Adam-and-Eve-it, adamize, afternoon-delight, all-the-way, all there but the most of you, amorous-congress, amorous-rites, ashes-hauled, assault-with-a-friendly-weapon, at-it, baby-making-love, bag, bag-up, bag-of-coke, bait-the-hook, balaclava, ball, balling, balling-the-jack, balls-eye, baloney-hop, baloney ride, bam-bam, banana, bananas-and-cream, bandicooting, bang, bang-away, bang-like-a-shithouse-door-(in-a-gale), bang like a shithouse door (in the wind), banging, banging away, Barrer-Moke, bash-leather, basket-making, bat-up, bawdy-banquet, bayonet-drill, BBQ'N, be-intimate-with, be-with-a-woman, beanfeast
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