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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: no Lothario, no Casanova, truelover's knot, two-timer, walkout, widowed aunt, zoophile, sweet mama, sweet-hot, tactus, Thisbe, philogynist, possesh, ring-tail, slowie, step-out-oner, stepper-outer, free holder, go head over heels, love cheat, a bit of mess, ace lover, amatorial, amoroso, amorosa, arseduke, bardajes, berry, big moment, bird dog, bubby heaters, bitch boy, bush talk, brother starling, companion, conditional love, cut him off, dorian, double-clocker, double-crosser, around the world in eighty ways, love knot, love letter, jilt, paramour, talking kiss, Wet Massage, trip around the world, trick-out, walk with somebody, thirty-day boy, throw a mean fuck, throw a wicked fuck, throws a wicked fuck, throws a mean fuck, sweetman, side dish, significant other, stepping out on, submarine watching, proper Casanova, a, play games with, paederast, jock and boxer, lose the old head over, give up rhythm, go domestic, eye-gazer, flip over, belly woman, double up on, dump, double-clock, double cross, bubbies' uncle, cuddler and cooer, crime of passion, chippy on, cicisbeism, daddy mack, back-door man, amatorculist, fancy man, inamorata, inamorato, loverly, lovelorn, mack daddy, mac daddy, sweet papa, sweet man, amorist, daddy, Adam, monogamy, in circulation, lovers lane, do the grand tour, grand tour, foofer felching, spit bath, come clean, bohemian, take a trip around the world (in eighty ways), tongue bath, truelove knot, two-timing, two-time, urophile, usurper, zoo queen, top-diver, three-time, talk to management, swordsman, sweetie pie, sweetie, bracelet, black widow, buttock jig, candy-maker, cavaliere servente, chicken-fancier, chicken queen, cocksmith, brother, brown sugar, cuddler, cunnophile, Delilah syndrome, delusional jealousy, eternal triangle, ex-, dragon lady, a bit of rough, a-bucking, ace poker, amorous paranoia, appendage, artiste, artist, asshole buddy, bearded lady, bit of rough, bit on the side, buddy, buffle, Bumper Kiss, bunker, bunky, bunkie, burglar, step out, stone femme, strephon, spider lady, pederast, pederasty, shrimp job, lygerastia, paederasty, ponce, POSSLQ, punker, pussy-whipped, queenie, flag, gazoony, great lover, horn-dog, infantilism, jazzbo, love machine, loveless, in-lover, jilted, John Tom, Kama Sutra, Lady Jane, leman, little brother, Lothario,
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?''
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.''
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.''
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.''
''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)
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.''
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.''
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