What (who) is LOVE - definition

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Love

STRONG, POSITIVE EMOTION BASED ON AFFECTION

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·noun A thin silk stuff.

II. Love ·noun Due gratitude and reverence to God.

III. Love ·noun Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

IV. Love ·noun A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).

V. Love ·vi To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

VI. Love ·noun The object of affection;

- often employed in endearing address.

VII. Love ·noun Nothing; no points scored on one side;

- used in counting score at tennis, ·etc.

VIII. Love ·noun To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.

IX. Love ·noun Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

X. Love ·noun Courtship;

- chiefly in the phrase to make love, ·i.e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

XI. Love ·noun To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.

XII. Love ·noun Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will;

- opposed to hate; often with of and an Object.

XIII. Love ·noun To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to Like; as, to love books; to love adventures.

XIV. Love ·noun A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

love

STRONG, POSITIVE EMOTION BASED ON AFFECTION

<humour> What some users feel for computers. "There is no truth in the rumour that I love computers, it's just what I tell them to get them to bed." -- Terry Pratchett [What did you expect in a computing dictionary?] (2007-05-11)

love

STRONG, POSITIVE EMOTION BASED ON AFFECTION

(loves, loving, loved)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

If you love someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you.

Oh, Amy, I love you...

We love each other. We want to spend our lives together.

VERB: V n, V n

Love is a very strong feeling of affection towards someone who you are romantically or sexually attracted to.

Our love for each other has been increased by what we've been through together.

...a old fashioned love story.

...an album of love songs.

N-UNCOUNT

You say that you love someone when their happiness is very important to you, so that you behave in a kind and caring way towards them.

You'll never love anyone the way you love your baby.

VERB: V n

Love is the feeling that a person's happiness is very important to you, and the way you show this feeling in your behaviour towards them.

My love for all my children is unconditional...

She's got a great capacity for love.

N-UNCOUNT

If you love something, you like it very much.

We loved the food so much, especially the fish dishes...

I loved reading.

...one of these people that loves to be in the outdoors...

I love it when I hear you laugh.

VERB: V n/-ing, V n/-ing, V to-inf, V it wh

You can say that you love something when you consider that it is important and want to protect or support it.

I love my country as you love yours.

VERB: V n

Love is a strong liking for something, or a belief that it is important.

The French are known for their love of their language.

N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n

Your love is someone or something that you love.

'She is the love of my life,' he said...

Music's one of my great loves.

N-COUNT: usu with poss

If you would love to have or do something, you very much want to have it or do it.

I would love to play for England again...

I would love a hot bath and clean clothes...

His wife would love him to give up his job.

VERB: V to-inf, V n, V n to-inf

10.

Some people use love as an affectionate way of addressing someone. (BRIT INFORMAL)

Well, I'll take your word for it then, love...

Don't cry, my love.

= dear, darling

N-VOC [feelings]

11.

In tennis, love is a score of zero.

He beat Thomas Muster of Austria three sets to love.

NUM

12.

You can use expressions such as 'love', 'love from', and 'all my love', followed by your name, as an informal way of ending a letter to a friend or relation.

...with love from Grandma and Grandpa.

CONVENTION

13.

If you send someone your love, you ask another person, who will soon be speaking or writing to them, to tell them that you are thinking about them with affection.

Please give her my love.

N-UNCOUNT: poss N

14.

see also -loved
, loving
, free love
, peace-loving
, tug-of-love

15.

If you fall in love with someone, you start to be in love with them.

I fell in love with him because of his kind nature...

We fell madly in love.

PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR with n

16.

If you fall in love with something, you start to like it very much.

Working with Ford closely, I fell in love with the cinema.