Meaning of love | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica Mars.
   slang
2. A deep caring for the existence of another.
   uncountable
3. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.
4. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
5. Zero, no score.
   uncountable
6. Strong affection.
   countable, uncountable
7. A profound and caring affection towards someone.
   countable, uncountable
8. A male given name.
   countable, uncountable
9. To feel love or sexual love for another.
10. Nothing; no recompense.
    uncountable
11. love affair
12. A female given name.
    countable, uncountable
13. Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
    countable, uncountable
14. Out of compassion; with no thought for a reward: She volunteers at the hospital for love.
15. Cupid, Eros, or another personification of love.
    countable, uncountable
16. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
    countable, uncountable
17. Under any circumstances. Usually used in negative sentences: I would not do that for love or money.
18. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
    countable, uncountable
19. For the sake of; in consideration for: did it all for the love of praise.
20. A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
    countable, uncountable
21. No affection; animosity: There's no love lost between them.
22. A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
    countable
23. A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
    Commonwealth, colloquial, countable, uncountable
24. the doctrine or practice of having sexual relations without marriage or any other commitment to an obligation.
25. A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
    countable, uncountable
26. a female lover or a woman who is loved.
27. Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable
28. a male lover or a man who is loved.
29. Sexual activity.
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable
30. Obsolete, self love; an excessive regard for oneself.
    Obsolete
31. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
    countable, uncountable
32. Obsolete, natural love or affection.
    Obsolete
33. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
    countable, uncountable
34. Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
    alt-of, countable, uncountable
35. A thin silk material.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
36. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.”

“The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is … the highest of all the Divine commands[.]”

“Through nonviolent resistance we shall be able to oppose the unjust system and at the same time love the perpetrators of the system. We must work passionately and unrelentingly for full stature as citizens, but may it never be said, my friends, that to gain it we used the inferior methods of falsehood, malice, hate, and violence.”

“I have never been in love as much as I have with you.”

“Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.”

“The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.”

“My love of cricket knows no bounds.”

“For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?”

“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.”

“I met my love by the gasworks wall.”

“Hello love, how can I help you?”

“But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."”

“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.”

“—What think you, my lord, of... love? —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.”

“Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.”

“At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; …”

“Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.”

“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.”

“I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Though all but two of my informants eventually self-identified as LoVe shippers—Eileen and Jodie were vocally opposed to the relationship, characterizing it as abusive—all were initially unwilling to involve that investment in their answers to my questions.”

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