lover

Other forms of lover

plural

lovers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lover

What does lover mean?

lover means "a person who loves someone or is loved by someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lover?

lover has 2 syllables: lov-er. The stress falls on "lov". In IPA it is /ˈlʌvɚ/.

What is another word for lover?

Close synonyms include fan, buff, devotee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lover a common word?

lover is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.