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lovyer

lovyer is the obsolete form of lover.

Meaning of lover

Noun

lover (plural lovers)

  1. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
    • […]loue is blinde, and louers cannot ſee / The pretty follies that themſelues commit,[…]c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
    • Be my bad boy, be my man / Be my weekend lover, but don't be my friend / You can be my bad boy, but understand / That I don't need you in my life again2006, Peifer Yann, Reuter Manuel, “Bad Boy”, in Everytime^([sic]) We Touch, performed by Cascada, →OCLC
  3. A person who loves something.
    • a lover of fine wines
    Synonyms:
    connoisseur
  4. (West-Country) An informal term of address for any friend.
    • All right, my lover?

Forms of lovyer

plurallovyers

Questions about lovyer

What is lovyer the obsolete form of?
Lovyer is the obsolete form of lover.

Words near lovyer in the dictionary

  1. lovour
  2. lovozerite
  3. lovviedom
  4. Lovvorn
  5. Lovvorns
  6. lovyer
  7. lovyers
  8. lovèd
  9. low
  10. low and behold
  11. low and slow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lovyer (page history and authors); lover (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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