lovers — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. In a romantic or sexual relationship.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   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.

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

   More examples (6)

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

   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[…]

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

   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.

   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.

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