恋人|こいびとkoibito[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounlover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
   私は恋人こいびとを「ダーリン」と呼よびます。↗

   I call my sweetheart darling.

• Synonym彼女かのじょNeutralColloquially 'girlfriend'; also the third-person pronoun 'she'. Unlike 「恋人」, which applies to partners of either sex, it can only refer to a woman.
• Related思い者おもいものWrittenA written, old-fashioned word for one's sweetheart or lover; unlike the everyday 「恋人」, it is rarely used in modern Japanese.

「恋人」 covers a romantic partner of either sex. In speech, a girlfriend is 「彼女」 and a boyfriend is 「彼氏」; 「思い者」 is an old-fashioned written term, rarely used today.

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1. 恋こいしく思おもう相手あいて。主おもに相思相愛そうしそうあいの間柄あいだがらにある相手あいて。