lover
/ˈlʌvɚ/ noun A2- One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
- A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
- A person who loves something. · a lover of fine wines· a lover of his/her own country
- An informal term of address for any friend. · All right, my lover?
Plural lovers
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Mercédès, however, paid no heed to this explanation of her lover’s arrest.
“Not that lovers ever really walk there,” she explained to Marilla, “but Diana and I are reading a perfectly magnificent book and there’s a Lover’s Lane in it.
We can’t imagine the lovers into it, you know.
Anne, starting out alone in the morning, went down Lover’s Lane as far as the brook.
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