love
Definitions
- The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica Mars.
- A deep caring for the existence of another.
- radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.
- A surname.
- Zero, no score.
- Strong affection.
- A profound and caring affection towards someone.
- A male given name.
- To feel love or sexual love for another.
- Nothing; no recompense.
- love affair
- A female given name.
- Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
- Out of compassion; with no thought for a reward: She volunteers at the hospital for love.
- Cupid, Eros, or another personification of love.
- A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
- Under any circumstances. Usually used in negative sentences: I would not do that for love or money.
- An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
- For the sake of; in consideration for: did it all for the love of praise.
- A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
- No affection; animosity: There's no love lost between them.
- A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
- A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
- the doctrine or practice of having sexual relations without marriage or any other commitment to an obligation.
- A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
- a female lover or a woman who is loved.
- Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
- a male lover or a man who is loved.
- Sexual activity.
- Obsolete, self love; an excessive regard for oneself.
- An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
- Obsolete, natural love or affection.
- Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
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Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”). alt-of, countable, uncountable
- A thin silk material.
- A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
Conjugation
Browse the table or drill it — all tenses, moods, and persons of love.
Equivalents
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Afrikaansliefhê
বাংলাভালবাসা
BosanskiafektAmaramobacidogustokamakultalaškaljubavljubavniljubezanljubitiljuvenostljuvezanlovemilamilošćanadanulasevdahskatVeneraљубављубавнинуласевдах
Suomihimotailokultakultasenilempimurunennauttianollarakasrakastaarakastetturakkainrakkaudellarakkaussilkkiharso
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻialoha
हिन्दीअनुरागआशिक़ीइश्क़उलफ़तउंसकामुकचाहतजानीदुलारपियाप्यारप्यार करनाप्रियप्रियतमप्रियाप्रीतमप्रेमप्रेम करनामदनममतामाशूक़मुहब्बतमोहरागलाड़वात्सल्यशृंगारसम्मोहहबीब
HrvatskiafektAmaramobacidogustokamakultalaškaljubavljubavniljubezanljubitiljuvenostljuvezanloveMilamilošćanadanulasevdahskatVeneraљубављубавнинуласевдах
Íslenskaelska
ქართულისიყვარული
Қазақ тілісүю
LëtzebuergeschHäerzi
Lingálalinga
ລາວຮັກ
Lietuviųmylėti
Te Reo Māoriaroha
मराठीप्रेम
Bahasa Melayucinta
Maltiħabb
Nederlandsbeminnende liefde bedrijvengedijengek zijn opgraag zienhouden vanliefhebbenliefsnulschatsmachten naarvrijen
ଓଡ଼ିଆଭଲ ପାଇବା
Polskiafektamatorstwojajokochaćkochać siękochaniekochanymiłośćmiłośnictwomiłosnymiłowaćsercowyumiłowanieupodobanieuwielbiaćzamiłowaniezero
Slovenščinaljubiti
Shqipdo
СрпскиafektAmaramobacidogustokamakultalaškaljubavljubavniljubezanljubitiljuvenostljuvezanloveMilamilošćanadanulasevdahskatVeneraљубављубавнинуласевдах
Sesotholerato
Тоҷикӣдӯст доштан
Türkmençesöýmek
اردوجان
O'zbekchasevmoq
isiZuluisingane
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.”
CEFR level
A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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