love

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A deep caring for the existence of another.

2. 2

   Strong affection.

   • A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
   • My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.
   • My love for Melca is eternal.
3. 3

   A person who is the object of romantic feelings

   A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.

   • Open the temple gates unto my love.
   • O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!
   • 'Oh, my love, my love!' she murmured, 'wilt thou ever know how I have loved thee?' and she kissed him on the forehead, and then went and stood in the pathway of the flame of Life.
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   1. 4

      A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

      • Hello love, how can I help you?
   2. 5

      A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.

   3. 6

      Sexual desire

      Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.

      • The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.
   4. 7

      Sexual activity.

      • —What think you, my lord, of... love? —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
   5. 8

      An instance or episode of being in love

      An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.

      • Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.
   6. 9

      Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends…

      Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.

   7. 10

      Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).

      • At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; …
   8. 11

      A thin silk material.

      • Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.
   9. 12

      A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.

   10. 13

       To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

       • I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!
       • 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.
       • 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.
   11. 14

       To need, thrive on.

       • Mold loves moist, dark places.
   12. 15

       To be strongly inclined towards something

       To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

       • I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair
       • "I love not that underlings should perceive my wisdom."
       • “Everywhere he went, I went with him. When I was twenty-three, I had been nearly all over the world. It was a splendid life—I loved it.”
   13. 16

       To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or…

       To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

       • For God so loued þe world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.
       • Iesus sayd vnto him, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde. This is the first and great Commandement. And the second is like vnto it, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.
   14. 17

       To derive delight from a fact or situation.

       • I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
   15. 18

       Synonym of heart (verb).

       • She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
   16. 19

       To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

       • I wish I could love her all night long.
   17. 20

       Zero, no score.

       • So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
       • The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.
   18. 21

       Nothing

       Nothing; no recompense.

       • I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.
   19. 22

       Alternative form of lofe (“to praise, sell”).

   20. 23

       radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.

   21. 24

       A surname.

       • Elisheva Baskin and Michael Stein are to be married Sunday evening at the Palisadium, an event space in Cliffside Park, N.J. Rabbi Yaacov Love is to officiate.
   22. 25

       A male given name.

   23. 26

       A female given name.

   24. 27

       Cupid, Eros, or another personification of love.

       • To Hymen's bower young Cupid came, And each with each was quite delighted; Love shot his dart of surest aim, And Hymen's brightest torch was lighted.
   25. 28

       An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.

   26. 29

       The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica…

       The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica Mars.

       • The complicated and, for fans, mostly frustrating relationship between these characters is the reason why stories dealing with Spuffy and LoVe pairings are by far more popular than stories based on any other possible ship.
       • “LoVe” (Logan/Veronica) was a very rapid OTP (one true pairing) candidate.

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