a person who loves or is loved

a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

an ardent follower and admirer

A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.

One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music.

Alt. of Lovery

One who loves; one who is in love; - usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.

One who loves, esq. one in love with a person of the opposite sex: one who is found of anything: ( B.) a friend.

One who loves.

One who loves; one who is in love.

One in love; one who loves; one fond of anything.

One who is in love.

Oh, of course if I had had a lover to be with! – Lahoma by John Breckinridge Ellis

The lover could wait. – The Tides of Barnegat by F. Hopkinson Smith

Except when she was by, the lover would probably have a bad time of it. – The Real Adventure by Henry Kitchell Webster

She did not want the lover. – Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope

She was going after her lover. – Command by William McFee

But I never went, and never saw my little lover any more, for in a few weeks he was dead of a fever, brought on by too much study,- and so ended the sad history of my fourth boy. – Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa M. Alcott

" She is going this minute with her lover," said the mother. – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Lizzie Eustace, no doubt, would take him,- unless she had told her secret to some other lover. – The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

I always thought when I got large enough to have a lover, I'd try it. – Gypsy's Cousin Joy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

There was nothing for me to do but to give back my lover his freedom. – The Northern Light by E. Werner

If only she could reach the place and find help to send to her lover, she did not greatly care what happened to her afterwards. – Jess by H. Rider Haggard

That is the difference between a husband and a lover. – The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford

She had come to meet her lover. – Dixie Hart by Will N. Harben

Her mother took a lover, and her father killed him, here on the Frascati road, and almost killed her too; but the law gave him the right and he went free." – Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion Crawford

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. – Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wait till you can find a lover with whom you can live in joy and happiness all your life. – The Worlds Greatest Books Vol. II: Fiction by Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

But she never thought of George Sinclair in the light of a possible lover. – The Stronger Influence by F.E. Mills Young

But to have him come like this- and such a lover! – The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. Porter

Olive Castlemaine was a little frightened at the intensity of his words; nevertheless, she was proud of her power over her lover. – The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking

You told me a short time ago that you were not her lover. – The Time of Roses by L. T. Meade