Bedfellow vs Lover - What's the difference?
bedfellow | lover | Related terms |
One with whom one shares a bed.
* 1599 Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew , .
An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.
* 1873' ''They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange '''bedfellows ". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.'' — Anthony Trollope, ''Phineas Redux ,
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One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.
* Shakespeare
A sexual partner.
A person who loves something.
Bedfellow is a related term of lover.
As nouns the difference between bedfellow and lover
is that bedfellow is one with whom one shares a bed while lover is one who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.bedfellow
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
- ''Whither away, or where is thy abode?
- ''Happy the parents of so fair a child;
- ''Happier the man whom favourable stars
- Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow .
Chapter 40.
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Synonyms
* (one with whom one shares a bed) bedmateDerived terms
* strange bedfellowslover
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal or obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit.
- a lover of fine wines
- a lover of his country
- All right, me lover?
