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lovers

noun

plural of lover
as in fans
a person with a strong and habitual liking for something an enthusiastic lover of all kinds of team sports

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Recent Examples of lovers In Peru under dictatorship, two of three long-time lovers marry for appearances but flee from their conservative rural community for the capital after their secret is exposed by the third. — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026 Now, Sacramento is on the list of best cities for coffee lovers, according to a ranking of cafes nationwide. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Perhaps to the delight of jewelry lovers, Liberty has opened a new Fashion Jewelry Gallery. — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 The photographic record shows Wong arm-in-arm with numerous admirers, many of whom were her lovers. — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026 Llínas mugs the camera for laugh lines in the narration, rattles off a comically long list of Borges’ lovers, reveals halfway through that the score has been played, in part, off a toy xylophone. — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026 In the 2018 movie Lizzie, Borden and Bridget are depicted as lovers who murder Andrew and Abby together. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 17 Sep. 2026 But for lovers of all things sweet and creamy, Cheesecake Funk is today a veritable mecca for those in the know. — David Farley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Sep. 2026 Unfortunately for fans of the franchise, the beetle has come for an Owens this time, not one of their lovers. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lovers
  1. fans
  2. enthusiasts
  3. suckers
  4. fanatics
Noun
  • What may have surprised even modern sports fans, however, was Ole Miss' suing two of its former players who followed former Rebels coach Lane Kiffin to his new position as head football coach at LSU.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • After the Sox scored six runs in the first inning and led 8-2 after the third, most fans settled in for a postgame concert by country music star Cole Swindell.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of fans
Noun
  • The company is pitching this machine as best for walkers, hikers, and low-impact cardio enthusiasts.
    — Bee Wertheimer, PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The store became a key address for fashion enthusiasts through the years and has grown to include an e-commerce channel, and Fausti doubled her duties by taking on Milan’s legendary concept store 10 Corso Como in 2020.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of enthusiasts
Noun
  • More suckers may continue to appear for several years unless the stump is ground up or treated with tree stump killer.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2026
  • One was a regional distributor of garbage trucks, street sweepers, and sewer suckers for municipalities.
    — Eric Zwick, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of suckers
Noun
  • Slow Horses fanatics will recognize her as one of the veteran MI5 operatives stuck in the agency’s version of purgatory, known as Slough House.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Nineteen fanatics, acting in the name of Islam, killed 2,997 innocent men, women and children in New York City, in Washington, and on airplanes turned into weapons of mass murder.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of fanatics

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“Lovers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lovers. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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