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 .'

See Also: 69, a bit of mess, a bit of rough, a-buck, a-bucking, ace lover, ace poker, Adam, affair, affair of the heart, Amantes sunt amentes, Amantium irae, amoris integratio est, amatorculist, amatorial, amorist, amorosa, amoroso, amorous paranoia, amorous rites, anagapesis, angel, appendage, arm-clutcher, arm-in-armer, around the world in eighty ways, arseduke, artist, artiste, asshole buddy, assignation, back-door man, bardajes, beard, bearded lady, bed house, belly woman, berry, big moment, bill-and-cooers, bird dog, bit of rough, bit on the side, bitch boy, black widow, blind love, blow off, bohemian, boy toy, bracelet, break up, brother, brother starling, brown sugar, bubbies' uncle, bubby heaters, buddy, buffle, Bumper Kiss, bunker, bunkie, bunky, burglar, bush talk, buttfuck buddy, buttock jig, callicacia, candy-maker, canoodlers, Casanova, cavalier, cavaliere servente, chicken hawk, chicken queen, chicken-fancier, chippy on, chuff chums, cicisbeism, circle fuck, cocksman, cocksmith, coital alignment technique, come clean, comfort zone, companion, conditional love, crime of passion, cuddle birds, cuddle doves, cuddler, cuddler and cooer, cunnilinctor, cunnilinctrice, cunnophile, cut him off, daddy, daddy mack, daddy-type, darling, Delilah syndrome, delusional jealousy, dildo, do the grand tour, dolly pals, dorian, double cross, double up on, double-clock, double-clocker, double-crosser, dragon lady, dual dildo, dump, eternal triangle, ex-, eye-gazer, fancy man, felching, flag, flip over, foofer felching, free holder, fucker, gazoony, give up rhythm, go domestic, go head over heels, go-between, grand tour, great lover, guy, heart team, hit and run guy, homo-, horn-dog, hot spot, hot-pillow joint, hug center, idealization, in circulation, in-lover, inamorata, inamorato, infantilism, intergenerational relationship, Jack and Jill, jazzbo, jellyroll, jilt, jilted, jock and boxer, John Tom, Kama Sutra, Lady Jane, leman, linguistic cross-dressing, little brother, lose the old head over, Lothario, love affair, love cheat, love doves, Love is blind, love knot, love letter, love machine, love nest, love nook, love scene, lovebirds, loveless, lovelock, lovelorn, lover, loverly, lovers lane, lygerastia, mac daddy, mack, mack daddy, money trick, money-honey, monogamous, monogamy, mushroom, no Casanova, no Lothario, no-tell hotel, paederast, paederasty, paramour, passion pit, pederast, pederasty, philogynist, play games with, playmates, ponce, possesh, POSSLQ, pronoun reversal, proper Casanova, a, punker, pussy-whipped, Queen of Hearts, queenie, ring-tail, romantic affair, Romeo, shrimp job, side dish, significant other, sixty-nine, slowie, soft nothings, spider lady, spit bath, spoon, spoonies, step out, step-out-oner, stepper-outer, stepping out on, stone femme, strephon, submarine watching, sweet mama, sweet man, sweet nothings, sweet papa, sweet talk, sweet-hot, sweetie, sweetie pie, sweetman, swordsman, tactus, take a trip around the world (in eighty ways), talk to management, talking kiss, thirty-day boy, Thisbe, three-time, throw a mean fuck, throw a wicked fuck, throws a mean fuck, throws a wicked fuck, tiff, tomcat, tongue bath, top-diver, toss freaks, toy boy, trick-out, trip around the world, triple penetration, truelove knot, truelover's knot, tryst, trysting place, two-time, two-timer, two-timing, twosome, U-haul, urophile, usurper, vagina loquens, vampire, Venus aversa, Venus observa, walk with somebody, walkout, wank tank, Wet Massage, widowed aunt, Xerox queen, zoo queen, zoophile

Quotes Containing lover:
''The question is which is the greater sin . Taking a lover or putting your lover in a position where they need another.'' A journalist (Michael O''Keefe) to Nina (Laura San Giacomo) in Nina Takes a Lover (1995)
Ivonne Valbrais (Greta Garbo) to lover Andr Montel (Robert Montgomery) in Inspiration (1931): ''You went to her... with my kisses?''
Jodie Dallas (Billy Crystal) and Jessica Gatling Tate (Katherine Helmond) confusing Plato (the Greek philosopher) with Pluto (thecartoon dog) in the TV series Soap (1977): - Jodie: ''Plato was gay .'' - Jessica: ''Mickey Mouse''s dog was gay?!'' - Jodie: ''Goofy was his lover .''
Countess (Olga Georges-Picot) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Countess Alexandrovna: ''You are the greatest lover I ever had.'' - Boris Grushenko: ''Well, I practice a lot when I''m alone.''
Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) to Tanya after she offered to take him on as her second lover in The Naked Gun 33 1/3 - The Final Insult (1994): ''Kinky, but I like my sex the way I play basketball: one on one and with as little dribbling as possible.''
Countess (Olga Georges-Picot) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Countess Alexandrovna: ''You are the greatest lover I ever had.'' - Boris Grushenko: ''Well, I practice a lot when I''m alone.''
A journalist (Michael O''Keefe) and Nina (Laura San Giacomo) in Nina Takes a Lover (1995): - Journalist: ''There are basically two arguments about infidelity . One is that you''re either born monogamous or you''re not and the other is that we''re all capable, certain conditions in a marriage provoke it .'' - Nina: ''What do you think?'' - Journalist: ''I think it''s a little bit of both.''
Countess Alexandrovna (Olga Georges-Picot) and Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Alex: ''You are the greatest lover I ever had.'' - Boris : ''Well, I practice a lot when I''m alone.''
Countess Alexandrovna (Olga Georges-Picot) and Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Alex: ''You are the greatest lover I ever had.'' - Boris : ''Well, I practice a lot when I''m alone.''
''Awfuly cold around the heart .'' Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) describing Miss Carson who is betraying her boss and lover in Out of the Past (1947)
A journalist (Michael O''Keefe) and Nina (Laura San Giacomo) in Nina Takes a Lover (1995): - Journalist: ''There are basically two arguments about infidelity . One is that you''re either born monogamous or you''re not and the other is that we''re all capable, certain conditions in a marriage provoke it .'' - Nina: ''What do you think?'' - Journalist: ''I think it''s a little bit of both.''
The journalist (Michael O''Keefe) and Nina (Laura San Giacomo) in Nina Takes a Lover (1995): - Journalist: ''There are basically two arguments about infidelity . One is that you''re either born monogamous or you''re not and the other is that we''re all capable, certain conditions in a marriage provoke it .'' - Nina: ''What do you think?'' - Journalist: ''I think it''s a little bit of both.''

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