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lovers

NOUN

person having sexual relationship

Synonyms

STRONGEST

admirer boyfriend companion girlfriend suitor sweetheart

STRONG

Romeo beau beloved darling dear dearest escort flame idolizer inamorata inamorato paramour petitioner solicitor steady suppliant swain truelove valentine wooer

WEAK

Juliet courter fiancé fiancée infatuate significant other

Antonyms

STRONGEST

enemy foe opponent

STRONG

hate

Example Sentences

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For banana lovers, there is no need to give them up.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

It’s been 101 years since Virginia Woolf first published “Mrs Dalloway,” a novel about persnickety party hostess Clarissa Dalloway colliding with her former lovers, one male and one female.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

For a long time, film lovers were right to wonder if he wanted the job.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

For many theater lovers, it’s no laughing matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Briony will be as much of a fantasy as the lovers who shared a bed in Balham and enraged their landlady.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan