Love

/ˈlʌv/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
2. (uncountable) Strong affection.
3. (countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
4. (colloquial, Commonwealth) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
5. A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
6. (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
7. (euphemistic) Sexual activity.
8. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.

Example Sentences

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’.

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• loves
• loue
• luv
• loving
• loved
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• love
• lovest
• lovedst
• loveth
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