Lover

A Lover is a person who cares for another person in a romantic way.

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Enemy.
  • an Acquaintance.
  • a Friend.
• See: Triangular Theory of Love.

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References

2016

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lover#Noun
  1. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.
     • Shakespeare

       Love is blind, and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit.

  2. A sexual partner.
  3. A person who loves something.

     a lover of fine wines

     a lover of his country

1986

• (Sternberg, 1986) ⇒ Robert J. Sternberg. (1986). “A Triangular Theory of Love." Psychological review 93, no. 2

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