Definition of lover

"lover" in the noun sense

1. lover

a person who loves someone or is loved by someone

2. fan, buff, devotee, lover

an ardent follower and admirer

3. lover

a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

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Quotations for lover

At lovers' perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Sc. 2 ]

A lover is never wrong. [ Balzac ]

Hope is a lover's staff. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who can deceive a lover? [ Virgil ]

All mankind love a lover. [ Emerson ]

Is not every true lover a martyr? [ Hare ]

One is always a woman's first lover. [ Laclos ]

Faults are beauties in lover's eyes. [ Theocritus ]

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. [ Theocritus ]

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

With women worth the being won.
The softest lover ever best succeeds. [ Hill ]

The wind breath'd soft a lover's sigh,
And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die
With breathless pause between,
O who, with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose
Of such enchanting scene! [ Scott ]

Neglect gives inspiration to the lover. [ Ar-Rumi ]

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved.
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved. [ Wordsworth ]

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. [ William Shakespeare ]

For faults are beauties in a lover's eyes. [ Theocritus ]

A charitable man is the true lover of God. [ Proverb ]

I was always a lover of soft-winged things. [ Victor Hugo ]

Venus always saves the lover whom she leads. [ Delatouche ]

This life is but the passage of a day,
This life is but a pang and all is over;
But in the life to come which fades not away
Every love shall abide and every lover. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. [ Stillingfleet ]

One looks at a lover; one does not examine him. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

A lover is loved most, a wife best, a mother always.

And otherwhyles with amorous delights
And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine.
Now singing sweetly to surprise her sprights,
Now making layes of love and lover's paine,
Bransles, ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine!
Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devys'd;
And thousands like which flowed in his braine,
With which he fed her fancy, and entys'd
To take to his new love, and leave her old despys'd. [ Spenser ]

Women sometimes deceive the lover - never the friend. [ L. S. Mercier ]

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend. [ Burke ]

When a lover gives, he demands - and much more than he has given. [ Parny ]

What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water. [ Catullus ]

A lover has all the virtues and all the defects that a husband has not. [ Balzac ]

Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover. [ Lamennais ]

To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege. [ J. M. Barrie ]

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

In love, the husband sees but the statue: the soul is shown only to the lover. [ Crebillon ]

What woman says to her fond lover should be written in air or the swift water. [ Catullus ]

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. [ George Sand ]

The miser is like a lover the excess of whose passion bars the enjoyment of it. [ French ]

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. [ Addison ]

In her first passion, woman loves her lover; in all the others, all she loves is love. [ Byron ]

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

A lover who is no longer loved is still good for something: he serves to hide the one who has replaced him.

A lover is a herald who proclaims the merit, the wit, or the beauty of a woman: what does a husband proclaim? [ Balzac ]

There is nothing more tiresome than the conversation of a lover who has nothing to desire, and nothing to fear. [ Mme. de Sartory ]

It is easy to find a lover and to retain a friend: what is difficult is to find the friend and to retain the lover. [ Levis ]

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men. [ Langford ]

A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Love is everything; love is the great fact. What matters the lover? What matters the flagon, provided one has the intoxication? [ A. de Musset ]

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than now and then. [ Balzac ]

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

A woman who has not seen her lover for the whole day considers that day lost for her: the tenderest of men considers it only lost for love. [ Mme. de Salm ]

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. [ Joubert ]

At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

A lover is a man who endeavors to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be: this is the reason why almost all lovers are ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]

No one, who is a lover of money, a lover of pleasure, or a lover of glory, is likewise a lover of mankind; but only he who is a lover of virtue. [ Epictetus ]

No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons. [ John Ruskin ]

The culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures that improves alike the mind and the heart, and makes every true lover of those beautiful creations of Infinite Love, wiser, purer, and nobler. [ J. Vick ]

Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother: in those six words lies what the human heart contains of the sweetest, the most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest, and the most ineffable. [ Massias ]

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother's love. [ Haliburton ]

The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star - she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

No possession can surpass, or even equal, a good library to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures which never cloy. [ John Alfred Langford ]

lover in Scrabble®

The word lover is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters lover:

VOLE
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word lover

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In lover

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lover in Words With Friends™

The word lover is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters lover:

VOLE
(57)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word lover

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In lover

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Words within the letters of lover

2 letter words in lover (3 words)

3 letter words in lover (5 words)

4 letter words in lover (6 words)

5 letter words in lover (1 word)

Word Growth involving lover

Shorter words in lover

love

over

Longer words containing lover

boilover boilovers

booklover booklovers

clover cloverleaf cloverleafs

clover cloverleaves

clover clovers

clover cyclovertebral

clover cyclovertical cyclovertically

glover glovers

loverboy loverboys

loverless

loverlike ploverlike

loverly

lovers boilovers

lovers booklovers

lovers clovers

lovers glovers

lovers nonlovers

lovers overlovers

lovers plovers

lovers pullovers

lovers rollovers

lovers spillovers

lovers underlovers

nonlover nonlovers

oculoauriculovertebral

overlover overlovers

plover ploverlike

plover plovers

plover plovery

pullover pullovers

rollover rollovers

scapulovertebral

spillover spillovers

underlover underlovers