What's the difference between lover and sweetheart?

Lover


Definition:

  • (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.

Sweetheart


Definition:

  • (n.) A lover of mistress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The European commission is investigating “sweetheart” tax deals between the Irish state and Apple, and last month Brussels provisionally found that the iPhone maker’s tax arrangements in Ireland were so generous as to amount to state aid .
  • (2) The son of a civil engineer, who lives in a rented apartment in a run-down district of Athens with his high-school sweetheart and two young children, Tsipras belongs to a generation untainted by power.
  • (3) Earlier this year, HMRC made a sweetheart deal with Google enabling the company to settle its 10-year tax liabilities with a payment of £130m, an effective rate of less than 3%.
  • (4) As a candidate he was accused of palling around with terrorists, cutting a sweetheart deal for his home, and following the lead of an anti-American preacher.
  • (5) I’m not sure what my 14–year–old, Catholic schoolgirl self would have thought if she’d been given a preview of the past week’s news, and the role her teenage sweetheart played in making it happen.
  • (6) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
  • (7) Moreover, many non-doms prefer not to advertise they qualify for such sweetheart deals with HMRC.
  • (8) It's the kind of sweetheart deal you'd love to make with your own bank.
  • (9) So, sweetheart, thank you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hiddleston , meanwhile, went full humanitarian, closing with a story about a recent trip to South Sudan with the UN Children’s Fund and dedicating his prize to aid workers everywhere.
  • (10) The prime minister now has serious questions to answer after she stood at the despatch box and called suggestions of a sweetheart deal ‘alternative facts’,” he said.
  • (11) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
  • (12) Demirtaş’s wife Basak – his childhood sweetheart, also from a poor family – is a teacher, and to judge from the glossy portraits that a mass-circulation newspaper printed last year of the couple with their two daughters, there is little to distinguish this handsome, modern, white-toothed family from many around the world.
  • (13) "Oh my sweetheart one, I love you so much more and more.
  • (14) But movement doesn't mean childhood sweethearts are given the heave-ho as the young and upwardly mobile make their ways to cosmopolitan city centres or exotic destinations.
  • (15) Patriotic family man Mick is described as a "bloke's bloke" who is also a big softie and he and Linda were childhood sweethearts.
  • (16) The Labour leader pointed to what he described as a gulf between what the Tories expect from the wealthiest and from ordinary taxpayers, as he highlighted what have been labelled sweetheart tax deals .
  • (17) As she points out, Dave Hartnett, the former head of Revenue and Customs, eventually resigned following the revelation that he had agreed to a sweetheart deal for Goldman Sachs (the bank was excused interest charges amounting to some £10m).
  • (18) It’s another sweetheart deal for the owner.” Michnuk points toward Corktown businesses within eyeshot.
  • (19) Not back to New York where Meredith was doing her best to keep him out of trouble (Jim Hobart: “Is he on a bender, sweetheart?”).
  • (20) Kacey Musgraves tours the UK in October New sweethearts of the rodeo: the female country stars determined to break the mould MIRANDA LAMBERT It's arguable that the seeds for country's current crop of straight-shooting radical female voices were first planted in the unlikely environment of Nashville Star .