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intimate
English
Etymology
From Latin intimare (“to put or bring into, to impress, to make familiar”), from intimus (“inmost, innermost, most intimate”), superlative of intus (“within”), from in (“in”); see interior.
Pronunciation
Adjective, noun
- enPR: ?n't?m?t, IPA(key): /??n.t?.m?t/
Verb
- enPR: ?n't?m?t, IPA(key): /??n.t?.me?t/
Adjective
intimate (comparative more intimate, superlative most intimate)
- Closely acquainted; familiar.
- an intimate friend
- He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
- Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
- She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
- Personal; private.
- an intimate setting
- Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know.
Translations
Noun
intimate (plural intimates)
- A very close friend.
- Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
- (in plural intimates) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
- You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Synonyms
- (close friend): bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousin
Translations
Verb
intimate (third-person singular simple present intimates, present participle intimating, simple past and past participle intimated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly.
- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
[...]
Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
- He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.
- (transitive, India) To notify.
- I will intimate you when the details are available.
Translations
Related terms
- intimacy
- intimation
Further reading
- intimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- intimate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- antitime
Esperanto
Adverb
intimate
- present adverbial passive participle of intimi
Italian
Verb
intimate
- second-person plural present indicative of intimare
- second-person plural imperative of intimare
- feminine plural of intimato
Anagrams
- imitante
Latin
Verb
intim?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of intim?
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lover
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English lovere, luffer, lufere, equivalent to love +? -er.
Alternative forms
- lovyer (dialectal or obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?v?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l?v?/
- Hyphenation: lov?er
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Noun
lover (plural lovers)
- One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse.
- Synonyms: love, love interest, spouse, sweetheart, significant other; see also Thesaurus:lover
- A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexual partner
- 2018 January 17, "Libra Woman: Personality Traits: Love & More", Astrology.com [1]
- A Libra woman seems to always be in love - either with her long term partner or with an ever-changing series of rotating lovers.
- A person who loves something.
- Synonym: connoisseur
- (West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.
Derived terms
- book lover, booklover
- Latin lover
- loverhood
- lover's lane / lovers' lane
Descendants
- ? German: Lover
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
lover (plural lovers)
- Obsolete form of louver.
Anagrams
- Vlorë
Dutch
Alternative forms
- loover (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lover, originally the plural of loof. As with other words with plurals in -er, eventually this was substituted with -eren, creating loveren. This new plural was then reanalysed as a separate noun and a new singular form lover was back-formed from it.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lo?.v?r/
- Hyphenation: lo?ver
- Rhymes: -o?v?r
Noun
lover n (plural lovers, diminutive lovertje n)
- foliage
Synonyms
- gebladerte
- lommer
Anagrams
- vloer
French
Etymology
A 17th century borrowing from North Sea Germanic language verb "lofen, lufen". The 1986 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française identifies the source as Low German (Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German); Jan de Vries' Nederlands Etymologisch Woordenboek (which identifies it as a possible cognate of Dutch leuver) suggests East Frisian instead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?.ve/
Verb
lover
- to coil (a rope or cord), to fake a line
- (reflexive, of a snake) to coil up, wind up; to curl up
Conjugation
Further reading
- “lover” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- voler
Middle English
Noun
lover (plural lovers)
- lover
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
lover m pl
- indefinite masculine plural of lov
Verb
lover
- present tense of love
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- lovar m pl
Noun
lover f pl
- indefinite feminine plural of lov
Etymology 2
Verb
lover
- present of lova
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