Lover
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- | {{Template}}==Noun== | + | [[Image:Fashionable contrasts James Gillray.jpg |thumb|left|200px| |
- | a person who loves another person, or is loved by another, of unspecified [[gender]] | + | This page '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is part of the [[human sexuality]] series<br> |
- | *[[lover]] | + | Illustration: ''[[Fashionable Contrasts]]'' (1792) by James Gillray]] |
- | *[[sweetheart]] | + | |
- | *[[darling]] | + | |
- | *[[crush]] | + | |
- | *[[beloved]] | + | |
- | *[[flame]] | + | |
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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]]. " –-''[[Madame Bovary]]'' (1857) by Gustave Flaubert | ||
+ | |} | ||
+ | [[Image:Ill-Matched Lovers (Quentin Matsys).jpg |thumb|right|200px|''[[Ill-Matched Lovers (Quentin Matsys)|Ill-Matched Lovers]]'' (c. 1520/1525) by Quentin Matsys]] | ||
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- | a male person who loves another person, or is loved by another. | + | '''Lover''' or '''lovers''' may refer to a person having a [[Sexual orientation|sexual]] or romantic relationship with someone outside [[marriage]]. In this context see: |
- | *[[boyfriend]] | + | |
- | *[[beau]] ''(obs)'' | + | |
- | *[[guy]] | + | |
+ | * [[Sexual partner]] | ||
+ | * [[Mistress (lover)]] | ||
+ | * [[Extramarital sex]] | ||
+ | * [[Premarital sex]] | ||
- | a female person who loves another person, or is loved by another. | + | |
- | *[[girlfriend]] | + | == See also == |
- | *[[baby]] | + | |
- | *[[woman]] | + | *[[Affair]] |
- | *[[honey]] | + | *[[Amateur]] |
+ | *[[Romantic love]] | ||
+ | *[[Sexual partner]] | ||
+ | *[[Tryst]] | ||
+ | *[[Intimate relationship]] | ||
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+ | == Namesakes == | ||
+ | *''[[Porphyria's Lover]]'' (1836) - Robert Browning | ||
+ | *''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' (1928) - D. H. Lawrence | ||
+ | *''[[The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover]]'' (1989) - Peter Greenaway | ||
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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. " –-Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert |
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Lover or lovers may refer to a person having a sexual or romantic relationship with someone outside marriage. In this context see:
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Namesakes
- Porphyria's Lover (1836) - Robert Browning
- Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - D. H. Lawrence
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) - Peter Greenaway
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