n. 25B6; noun
she had a secret lover : BOYFRIEND, GIRLFRIEND, lady-love, beloved, love, darling, sweetheart, inamorata, inamorato; mistress; partner, significant other; informal bit on the side, bit of fluff, toy boy, fancy man, fancy woman; dated beau; archaic swain, concubine, paramour. See list.
a dog lover : DEVOTEE, admirer, fan, enthusiast, aficionado; informal buff, freak, nut.
-phile.
Lovers (Real and Fictional)
Anna Karenina and Leon Vronski Lady Chatterley and Mellors
Antony and Cleopatra Lancelot and Guinevere
Beatrice and Benedick Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton
Bonnie and Clyde Napoleon and Josephine
Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb Orpheus and Eurydice
Charles II and Nell Gwyn Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas
Chopin and George Sand Othello and Desdemona
Dante and Beatrice Paolo and Francesca
Daphnis and Chloe Paris and Helen
Darby and Joan Pelléas and Mélisande
David and Bathsheba Petrarch and Laura
Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed Porgy and Bess
Dido and Aeneas Pyramus and Thisbe
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning Rimbaud and Verlaine
Eros and Psyche Robin Hood and Maid Marian
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Romeo and Juliet
Harlequin and Columbine Rosalind and Orlando
Heathcliff and Cathy Samson and Delilah
Héloïse and Abelard Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler
Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin Superman (Clark Kent) and Lois Lane
Hero and Leander Tristan and Isolde
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Troilus and Cressida
Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester Venus and Adonis
Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini W. B. Yeats and Maud Gonne
Madame Butterfly and Lt Pinkerton W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood