Definition of Lover

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Definition of Lover

Lover

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

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

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Lover Quotations

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot

So the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot

Lover Translations

lover in Afrikaans is geliefde
lover in Dutch is vriendin, vrijster, geliefde, minnares
lover in German is Geliebte
lover in Norwegian is elsker
lover in Portuguese is amante

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