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Lover vs Laver - What's the difference?

lover | laver |

As nouns the difference between lover and laver

is that lover is one who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend while laver is a red alga of the genus porphyra or laver can be a basin for washing.

lover

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal or obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Love is blind, and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit.
  • A sexual partner.
  • A person who loves something.
  • a lover of fine wines
    a lover of his country
  • All right, me lover?

    Synonyms

    * (one who loves and cares) love, love interest, sweetheart, significant other, see also * (sexual partner) See * (person who loves something) connoisseur * (any friend) See

    Derived terms

    * lover's lane / lovers' lane

    laver

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (see below).

    Noun

  • A red alga of the genus Porphyra .
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) laveoir, from (etyl) lavatorium. Compare (lavatory).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A basin for washing.
  • * , II.xii:
  • Infinit streames continually did well / Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see, / The which into an ample lauer fell
  • One who laves; a washer.
  • That which washes or cleanses.
  • Anagrams

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