Lover
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- "I have a lover ! I have a lover !"she kept repeating to herself, reveling in the thought as though she were beginning a second puberty. " – Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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Noun
a person who loves another person, or is loved by another, of unspecified gender
- lover
- sweetheart
- darling
- crush
- beloved
- flame
a male person who loves another person, or is loved by another.
a female person who loves another person, or is loved by another.
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See also
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Namesakes
- Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - D. H. Lawrence
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) - Peter Greenaway
- Porphyria's Lover (1836) - Robert Browning
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