[noun] [C]Your lover is a person with whom you are having a sexual relationship, but are not married to.They were friends before they became lovers.He was her live-in lover (= they lived together having a sexual relationship) for three years.Lovers can also mean two people who are in love with each other.They will play the doomed young lovers, Romeo and Juliet.
LOVER
Meaning of LOVER in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012