Synonyms for lovers
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : luhv-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlʌv ər |
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Définition of lovers
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
- It isn't gowns that lovers love, but what bellies out the gowns.
- Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
- In Sonnet 136 he prays her to allow him to be one of her lovers.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- And certainly, if his place is among the poets, he is the leader of all the lovers.
- Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
- And suspicion grew to certainty that she and Reid were lovers.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- We girls used to wonder what the lovers talked about while they waited for the traitor.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- "What a lot of bosh is talked about lovers," his comment ran.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
- Lovers of aerial navigation have otherwise not much left to wish for.
- Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- It was a heavy night, and in it there was no place for love or lovers' tenderness.
- Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
- Yet lovers in real life are, so far as I have observed them, bores.
- Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells
- It was they who first questioned the petals of flowers for their lovers' loyalty.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
Antonyms for lovers
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