lvalue

An lvalue expression is an expression which has identity, but cannot be implicitly moved from. Among these are expressions that consist of a variable name, function name, expressions that are built-in dereference operator uses and expressions that refer to lvalue references.

The typical lvalue is simply a name, but lvalues can come in other flavors as well:

struct X { ... };

X x;         // x is an lvalue
X* px = &x;  // px is an lvalue
*px = X{};   // *px is also an lvalue, X{} is a prvalue

X* foo_ptr();  // foo_ptr() is a prvalue
X& foo_ref();  // foo_ref() is an lvalue

Additionally, while most literals (e.g. 4, 'x', etc.) are prvalues, string literals are lvalues.