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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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gallant
English
Alternative forms
- gallaunt (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant (“courteous; dashing; brave”), present participle of galer (“to rejoice; make merry”), from gale (“pomp; show; festivity; mirth”); either from Frankish *wala- (“good, well”), from Proto-Germanic *wal-, from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose, wish”); or alternatively from Frankish *gail (“merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant”), from Proto-Germanic *gailaz (“merry; excited; luxurious”), related to Dutch geil (“horny; lascivious; salacious; lecherous”), German geil (“randy; horny; lecherous; wicked”), Old English g?l (“wanton; wicked; bad”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æl?nt/
- Rhymes: -æl?nt
Adjective
gallant (comparative more gallant, superlative most gallant)
- brave, valiant.
- honorable.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- grand, noble.
- (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
- This town [is built in a very gallant place.
Related terms
- gallantly
- gallantry
Translations
Etymology 2
From French
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???lænt/, /??æl?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /???l?nt/, /??æl?nt/
- Rhymes: -ænt
Adjective
gallant (comparative more gallant, superlative most gallant)
- Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Translations
Noun
gallant (plural gallants)
- (dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- PROSPERO: […] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd / with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person […]
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- […] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act III, Scene II, verses 140–143
- The ignominy of that whisper’d tale / About a midnight gallant, seen to climb / A window to her chamber neighbour’d near, / I will from her turn off, […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- (nautical) topgallant
Translations
Verb
gallant (third-person singular simple present gallants, present participle gallanting, simple past and past participle gallanted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
- (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
References
- gallant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Welsh
Alternative forms
- gallan (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?ant/
Verb
gallant
- (literary) third-person plural present/future of gallu
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