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love

UK/ˈlʊv/ US/ˈlʌv/ very common slang
verb (4) noun (6)

verb

1.

have a great affection or liking for

  • “I love French food”
  • “She loves her boss and works hard for him”
Antonyms
2.

get pleasure from

  • “I love cooking”
Synonyms
3.

be enamored or in love with

  • “She loves her husband deeply”
4.

have sexual intercourse with

  • “This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
  • “Adam knew Eve”
  • “Were you ever intimate with this man?”
Synonyms

noun

1.

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

  • “his love for his work”
  • “children need a lot of love”
Antonyms
2.

any object of warm affection or devotion

  • “the theater was her first love”
  • “he has a passion for cock fighting”
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3.
4.

a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction

  • “their love left them indifferent to their surroundings”
  • “she was his first love”
5.

a score of zero in tennis or squash

  • “it was 40 love”
6.

sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people

  • “his lovemaking disgusted her”
  • “he hadn”
  • “;”
Synonyms

Origin

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”). The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like. The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun. Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from Norman amour (“love”). Cognates Cognate with Scots luve (“love”), Saterland Frisian ljo, ljoo, ljoof (“dear, sweet”), Ljoote, Ljoowe (“love”), West Frisian leaf (“friendly, kind, cordial”), leafde (“love”), Dutch lief (“lovely, nice, sweet”), liefde (“love”), German lieb (“dear; lovable”), Liebe (“love”), German Low German Leevde, Lieve (“love”), Luxembourgish léif (“lovely, kind, nice, sweet”), Léift (“love”), Vilamovian łiwa (“love”), Yiddish ליב (lib, “nice; kind”), Icelandic ljúfur (“beloved, dear”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish ljuv (“lovely, sweet”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (liufs, “beloved, dear”), Albanian lyp (“to beg”), Russian любовь (ljubovʹ, “love”), Lithuanian liaupsė (“praise”), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić (...

Phrases

  • all is fair in love and war Terms derived from the noun or verb love
  • all's fair in love and war Terms derived from the noun or verb love
  • apple of love Terms derived from the noun or verb love
  • arrow of love Terms derived from the noun or verb love
  • boy's love Terms derived from the noun or verb love
  • boys' love Terms derived from the noun or verb love
  • brotherly love Terms derived from the noun or verb love
  • calf love Terms derived from the noun or verb love
  • fall in love

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