lovers

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌvɚz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌvəz/
• Hyphenation: lov‧ers

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lovers

1. plural of lover

lovers (not comparable)

1. (chiefly LGBTQ) In a romantic or sexual relationship.
   • 1996, Michiyo Fukaya, A Fire is Burning, it is in Me: The Life and Writings of Michiyo Fukaya:

     It hurts when I am lovers with a white, working class lesbian and she refuses to deal with race and the fact that I am a mother.

   • 1999, Caeia March, Spinsters' Rock, Women's Press (UK):

     I am lovers with her sister and we have become sisters through friendship.

   • 2000 December 5, Liz Smith, quotee, “Liz Smith tells on herself”, in The Advocate, page 39:

     I have thousands of friends I've never been lovers with.

   • 2011 March 30, Diane Stein, All Women Are Psychics, Crossing Press, →ISBN, page 109:

     I was lovers with a woman I'll call Judy. One morning when we were sharing our dreams, I told her the dream I'd had where I was making an eloquent speech in Japan about saving the whales […]

   • 2012 February 17, Nan Alamilla Boyd, Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History, OUP USA, →ISBN, page 209:

     I was lovers with Joan — she was an artist for ONE Inc.

   • 2018 March 1, Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, Mystic Productions Press, →ISBN:

     I was lovers with this boy in my neighborhood for... oh, I'd say at least eight years. And everybody in the neighborhood knew. And we came out that year.

   • 2020 November 13, Marty Fink, Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 82:

     I was lovers with him, I think, either right before he'd had his diagnosis, or he'd already been diagnosed, and to me, it didn't matter.

   • 2022 December 6, George Lakey, Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

     I was lovers with a man. But in terms of the broader public, I was still in the closet.

• Slover, solver

lovers

1. plural of lover