lover

One who loves another, especially one who is involved in a romantic or sexual relationship with another.

A couple who are in love with each other.

One who is fond of or devoted to something.

An obsolete comparative of lief.

An obsolete form of louver.

One who loves; one who has a feeling of love or earnest liking for any person or thing; a zealous admirer: as, a lover of good men or of Christianity; a lover of books or of science; a lover of wine.

Specifically, one who is enamored; a person in love: now used in the singular almost exclusively of the man, though formerly also of the woman, while the plural is still commonly used of both: as, a lover and his sweetheart; a pair of lovers.

See louver.

One who loves; one who is in love; — usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.