Boy and Lover

Boy

Boy noun - A male romantic companion.

Usage example: their teenaged daughter has a new boy, and she's just crazy about him

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Lover and boy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lover" instead a noun "Boy".

Nearby Words: boyish, boyhood, boyishness

Lover noun - A person with a strong and habitual liking for something.

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Boy and lover are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Boy" instead a noun "Lover".

Nearby Words: love, loving, lovely, loved, lovable

sensitive	sensitive boy	sensitive lover
human	human boy	human lover
old	old boy	old lover
good	good boy	good lover
Other adjectives: handsome, dead, bad, black, young, new, missing, former, mysterious, older, unnamed, younger.

An episode of Gay Comics had a teenage boy explaining how much cooler his dad's male lover's home was than his best friend's dad's male lover's home.

Source: My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad
One of the three main characters has a relationship with a younger boy, of whom he's protective, but who seems to be a more mature person than his lover.

Source: Lover and Beloved
He then meets a blond 17-year-old boy, hitherto straight, who, in a subversion of the Lover/Beloved trope, falls in love with Fee and pursues him.

Source: Lover and Beloved

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