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Definition of 'love'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .
The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
(label) Strong affection.
# An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
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# A deep or abiding liking for something.
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# A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
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#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
- He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
(countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
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* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
- Open the temple gates unto my love .
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(euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
*1986, Ben Elton & al., ":
*:—What think you, my lord, of... love ?
*:—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
* 1664 , (Robert Boyle), Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours,
- Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love -Hood.
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba .
Synonyms
* (sense) baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird
* (term of address) mate, lover. darling, sweety
Antonyms
* (strong affection) hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite
* (absence of love) indifference
Verb
( lov)
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
- I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
* 2013 February 26, and (Nate Ruess), (Just Give Me a Reason) :
- Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
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To need, thrive on.
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(colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like .
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To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
* John 3:16
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
* Matthew: 37-38
- You shall love' the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall ' love your neighbor as yourself.
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To derive delight from a fact or situation.
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To lust for.
(euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
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Antonyms
* hate, despise
Derived terms
* all's fair in love and war
* cupboard love
* in love
* I love you
* fall in love
* first love
* lady love
* love affair
* love at first sight
* love bird/lovebird
* love bite/lovebite
* love bomb
* love bug
* lovebunny
* love child
* loved-up
* love egg
* love feast
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* love game
* love grass
* love handle
* love-hate
* love-in
* love-in-a-mist
* love is blind
* love life
* lovely
* love-making
* love match
* love nest
* love potion
* lover
* love rat
* lovertine
* love seat
* loveship
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* love-shyness
* lovesick
* love song
* lovestone
* love story
* love tap
* love toy
* love triangle
* lovey-dovey
* loving kindness
* loyal love
* make love
* unrequited love
* no love lost
* puppy love
* tough love
* true love
* unconditional love
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Related terms
* lov
* luv
* wuv
See also
* charity
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l).
Verb
(lov)
To praise; commend.
To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
Etymology 3
From the phrase Neither for love nor for money , meaning "nothing".
The previously held belief that it originated from the (etyl) term , due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted.
Noun
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(racquet sports) Zero, no score.
- So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
* The Field
- He won the match by three sets to love .
* John Betjeman, A Subaltern's Love Song
- Love -thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, / The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, / With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, / I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.
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