noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dog lover (= someone who loves dogs )
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Britain is a nation of dog lovers.
a music lover
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Her recordings delighted music lovers.
animal lover (= someone who likes animals )
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Beth is an animal lover .
jealous husband/wife/lover etc
long-time friend/lover etc
star-crossed lovers (= people who love each other but cannot be together )
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star-crossed lovers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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He was a great lover of cats.
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Of course, making a rational decision about when to have children is asking a great deal of lovers .
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I am no great lover or defender of the legal profession.
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We are the greatest lovers in the world.
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Show me the tyrants who have been great lovers .
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Tough, quick of temper, a great lover , whose seminal-sac was ever full.
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He was still the great lover , and the woman beside him was the reason for his constant philandering.
jealous
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A jealous lover certainly would be acting on his own.
young
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The thought came back of the two as young lovers .
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The death of two young lovers was the cause.
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Three pairs of young lovers walked by, hand in hand, whispering dreams of emigration.
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According to legend they were young lovers whom the druids forbade to marry.
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It's not the young lovers I marvel at, but the older ones, such as one couple I see regularly.
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What on earth was wrong with a woman having a younger lover ?
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It was a very sad play, because the young lovers die at the end.
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Can a younger lover beat the ageing blues - or would a change of style do the trick for you?
■ NOUN
animal
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Actress and animal lover , Damaris Hayman is leading a campaign to keep the animal collection in the Park.
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And, unlike some animal lovers , she likes people.
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Perhaps it was the universal bond between animal lovers and vets that made it so easy to become part of the community.
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Would that as many animal lovers were as quick to speak and defend dumb animals instead of staying silent as so many do.
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At Beckford in Worcestershire fifty hedgehogs have been brought in by worried animal lovers .
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An adventurer and an animal lover , Goodall was also 23 and beautiful.
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But the plan was slammed by animal lovers yesterday.
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Shocked animal lovers have protested to the ministry, but the tests are to go ahead.
art
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Royal art on show ART lovers will tomorrow be able to view more than 30 watercolours painted by Prince Charles.
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I'd heard he was an art lover .
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For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it.
music
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He was not a music lover , nor was he particularly attracted by any cultural activity.
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At last, a clear picture of music lovers and lovers.
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A must for all Guinness and music lovers .
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Most music lovers assume the convention was widely established at least by the early days of this century.
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A music lover to the core, Nanny couldn't help trotting over to inspect it.
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But by noW Slaughter, always a music lover , was sure he wanted to be in the record business.
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A keen music lover he was also honorary general secretary of the Darlington Music Festival which finished at the weekend.
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Now music lovers have come to the choirs rescue.
■ VERB
become
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Nahum was becoming a feverishly energetic lover .
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They became roommates, not lovers .
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From being polite strangers they had become like sparring lovers speaking their minds with a familiarity which was extraordinary in its intensity.
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They meet in a daily group therapy session, and very quickly become lovers .
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Penry did use persuasion on Leonora next time they met, but it had nothing to do with becoming her lover .
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Florence liked to drink and laugh as Margarett did, and eventually the two became lovers .
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They became friends, then lovers , and finally, in 1809, husband and wife.
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A few nights later, they became lovers .
lose
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However, the reverse of this experience was reported to me by a woman who lost her lover in a drowning accident.
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They've probably lost their husbands or lovers in the war, they're alone and frightened.
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I had gained a poet but was losing a lover , perhaps the last I would ever know.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
live-in lover/boyfriend etc
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She had a live-in boyfriend to whom she devoted most of her time and energy.
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She met her live-in boyfriend on-line.
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She took no new live-in lover, and as far as she was aware, neither did Charles.
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Two divorces, a long string of live-in boyfriends.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lovers of night life won't be able to resist the many nightclubs in the area.
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A few nights later, they became lovers.
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an opera lover
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Arabella has had many lovers.
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Every jazz lover dreams of visiting New Orleans.
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Kilpatrick claims that she and the congressman were once lovers.
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Over her lifetime, Catherine had many lovers.
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That night she received a call from her lover .
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We are a nation of animal lovers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Created so by Ted Mosse, lover of uniforms, not too honest, deceased.
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In the same way it can reassure a timid lover , or comfort a woman weak from childbirth.
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Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return.
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One lucky racing lover will own a horse for the jumps or the flat season.
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Probably racing on to meet her lover , he thought.
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The lover of one of his former students died last week.