(n.) One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.
(n.) A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.
(n.) One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music.
(n.) Alt. of Lovery
Example Sentences:
(1) McNear was in New York that summer after her junior year and for nearly two months they were lovers in Manhattan.
(2) Music lovers have rightly championed the risk-taking and diversity of 6 Music.
(3) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(4) Concerns have also been raised over a case in Texas in which a man is facing execution despite an admission by the judge and prosecutor in his trial that they were lovers.
(5) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(6) Every music lover wants a personal connection to the music they love.
(7) They might be to memorialise a lover or child, remember a journey, a period of time in prison or a religious conversion.
(8) The white hotel has 144 rooms for beach lovers, surfers, divers, trail runners, yogis and spa-toners.
(9) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
(10) And when nothing seems off-limits online – not to mention the intimate moments of any celebrity under the sun, or the private photos Jennifer Lawrence makes for her lover’s eyes only – does the proper fleshy privacy of sex with a partner lose its glamour?
(11) The programme alleges that the Home Office ignored evidence presented by Ellis's solicitor Victor Mischon that she had an accomplice when she shot her lover David Blakely, an upper-class racing driver, outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London, on Easter Sunday 1955.
(12) Life events were assessed by reports on the numbers of lovers, friends, and acquaintances who were diagnosed with AIDS or had died of AIDS and by scores on a checklist of 24 more general serious stressor events.
(13) Above all, through the offices of his medium and lover, Mary Parish, he entered into elaborate relations both with the fairy world and with God and His Angels.
(14) Cinema chains in the UK and abroad fear relaxation of the window in case film lovers decide to save their pennies and see new releases at home rather than travelling to their nearest multiplex.
(15) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(16) He was a giant of a man in every way imaginable and his demise is not only a tremendous loss to the world at large and to lovers of great art, but very much on a human level.
(17) The book also featured Lola Montez, the fabulous beauty of the age, and her lover Ludwig, the mad King of Bavaria.
(18) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(19) The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96%, according to research published on Wednesday.
(20) Now, leaving aside that Assia Wevill (Hughes's lover, who killed herself and their daughter in 1969) and Hughes were never married, it is a safe bet that Hughes himself was a lot more "bothered" by the deaths of his wife, lover and child than someone who never knew them, no hashtag.
Paramour
Definition:
(n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
(n.) Love; gallantry.
(adv.) Alt. of Paramours
Example Sentences:
(1) The victims were usually illegitimate preschoolers; the assailants, usually the mothers or their paramours, had backgrounds of assaultiveness and social deviance and killed in impulsive rage.
(2) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
(3) Together, the books sold 15m copies in 40 countries and spawned two Hollywood films starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant as her warring paramours.
(4) There has been furious speculation over who might play the kinky business magnate and his paramour, though casting details have stubbornly refused to emerge.
(5) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
(6) Harry Treadaway’s Victor Frankenstein buckled under the weight of his monstrous creations, succumbing to his morphine addiction and losing his undead paramour Lily.
(7) Publisher Jonathan Cape would only reveal that the novel "explores a different phase in Bridget's life", refusing to say if Bridget's perennial paramours, Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, would make an appearance in the story, or if Bridget would have aged in real time, making her at least in her late 40s.
(8) Such is the difficulty of answering questions like, which village near Vienna is the site of the hunting lodge where the Habsburg crown prince Rudolf and his paramour Mary Vetsera committed suicide in mysterious circumstances in 1889 or which mythic Greek hero was the son of Telamon and the cousin of Achilles and was referred to as the “bulwark of the Achaeans” in Homer’s epic poem the Iliad, Pilkington has spurned the usual game and invented one of his own.
(9) Court battles and exposés revealed salacious details of Jefri's jetset lifestyle, including allegations of a harem of western paramours and a luxury yacht he owned called "Tits".
(10) In a 2007 comic book chapter, the original patriotic hero, Steve Rogers, was revealed to have died after being shot at close range by sometime paramour Sharon Carter, who had been hypnotised into committing the murder.
(11) I have no idea what circumstances led to Whittingdale’s former paramour becoming involved in sex work.
(12) Johnson, best known for small roles in the Oscar-winning The Social Network and comedy The Five Year Engagement, remains in the lead female role of Grey's blushing virginal paramour, Anastasia Steele.
(13) For a modest amount of money – certainly far less than it costs to start and maintain a human relationship – a growing number of websites now offer the services of pretend social media paramours.
(14) In an article in a college magazine, former student Stuart Delves called Jefferies and his colleagues in the English department "paramours of literature".
(15) There has been furious speculation over who might play kinky business magnate Christian Grey and his paramour Anastasia Steel in the film, with Ryan Gosling and Mila Kunis the current favourites with bookmakers .
(16) In an article written for a school magazine, Delves described Jefferies and his colleagues as "luminaries ... paramours of literature ... profound catalysts".
(17) But good sense isn't always good manners and there is still something of a stigma attached to admitting you know more about a potential paramour than you really should.
(18) Joking apart, Jagger, and Sophie Dahl's beau, Jamie Callum, may be interested to learn that scientists have just proved that 'Short man syndrome' is real, leastways in romance, and that the vertically challenged make intensely jealous paramours.
(19) Moyes, a name that, let's face it, sounds like a Yiddish word for eunuch, has endured 317 days of celibacy, whilst at Everton his former paramour, under the beguiling matador Martínez, is likely to claim the final Champions League place.