love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lŭv
ipa: /lʌv/
ipa: /lʌv/
ipa: [läv~lɐv]
ipa: /lʌv/
ipa: [lɘʋ]
ipa: [lɘv]
ipa: /lʊv/
rhymes: -ʌv
Forms: form: loves
form: loving
form: loved
form: loved
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: love
form: love
form: loved
form: love
form: lovest
form: loved
form: lovedst
form: loves
form: loveth
form: loved
form: love
form: loved
form: love
form: loved
form: love
form: -
form: loving
form: loved
form: loue
form: luv
Etymology: 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 (“to like”), Persian آلفتن (âloftan, “to enamor”), Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).
Senses: examples: text: I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!
text: wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
ref: 2013 February 26, Pink, Nate Ruess, Just Give Me a Reason:
glosses: To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
examples: text: Mold loves moist, dark places.
glosses: To need, thrive on.
examples: text: I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair
text: "I love not that underlings should perceive my wisdom."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: “Everywhere he went, I went with him. When I was twenty-three, I had been nearly all over the world. It was a splendid life—I loved it.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 141:
glosses: To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
examples: text: For God so loued þe world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 3:16:
text: Iesus sayd vnto him, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde. This is the first and great Commandement. And the second is like vnto it, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 22:37–39:
glosses: To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
examples: text: I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
glosses: To derive delight from a fact or situation.
examples: text: She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
coordinate_terms: like
unlike#Verb
glosses: Synonym of heart (verb).
synonyms: word: heart
extra: verb
examples: text: I wish I could love her all night long.
glosses: To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
Synonyms: sense: have a strong affection for
word: adore
word: cherish
sense: have sexual intercourse with
word: enjoy
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
word: care for
word: cling to
word: dote
word: fancy
word: love
Hypernyms: word: affect
word: desire
word: like
Hyponyms: word: worship the ground someone walks on
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: all is fair in love and war
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: all-loving
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: all's fair in love and war
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: antilove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: apple of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: arrow of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: belove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: boylove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: boys' love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: boy's love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: brotherly love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: calf love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: castle of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: cat's love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: childlove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: courtly love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: cupboard love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: cyberlove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: declaration of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: do you love me
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: everything is fair in love and war
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: face only a mother could love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: face that only a mother could love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: falling in love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: fall in love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: fall out of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: first love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: forelove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for love nor money
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for love or money
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of all that is good
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of all that is holy
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of Betsy
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of Christ
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of fuck
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of God
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of Goddess
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of me
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of Mike
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of shit
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: for the love of the game
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: free love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: girllove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: God love someone
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: hate the sin but love the sinner
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: I have to love you and leave you
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: I love you
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: I'm in love with you
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: in love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: in love with
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: instalove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: labor of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: labour of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lack-love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lad's love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lady love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: ladylove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: law of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: leaflove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: light o' love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: light-o'-love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: Lord love a duck
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: Lord love you
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lots of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovability
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love a duck
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love affair
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word: love-aholic
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word: loveaholic
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word: love apple
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word: love at first sight
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word: love away
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-bead
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word: lovebead
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word: love bead
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word: love bird
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word: lovebird
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word: love-bite
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word: love bite
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word: lovebite
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word: love boat
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word: love bomb
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word: love-bomb
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word: love bombing
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word: love-bombing
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word: lovebot
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word: love box
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovebud
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovebug
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love bug
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovebunny
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love button
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love buzz
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love canal
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love cannot be forced
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love charm
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovechild
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love child
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word: love-child
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word: love conquers all
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love curl
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love custard
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word: love cycle
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word: love darg
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love dart
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word: loveday
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love doll
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovedom
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love dove
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word: love draught
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love drug
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word: loved-up
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovee
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love egg
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love feast
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-feat
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovefest
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word: loveful
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love game
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love goggles
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love grass
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-hair
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love handle
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-handled
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-hate
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-hatred
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love heart
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love hold
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love hole
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love hotel
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-in
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-in-a-mist
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love in a mist
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love in a puff
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-in-idleness
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love interest
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-in-winter
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love is blind
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love is love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love it or lump it
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love jihad
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love jones
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love jug
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love juice
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovekin
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovekins
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love knot
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love language
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loveless
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love letter
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-lies-bleeding
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love life
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovelight
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-light
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovelike
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loveling
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love lips
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-lock
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovelock
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love lock
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovelore
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovelorn
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love lotion
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovely
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love machine
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovemaker
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-making
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love making
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love manual
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovemap
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovemark
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love marriage
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-match
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love match
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovemate
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovemobile
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovemonger
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love mound
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love muscle
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loveness
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love nest
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love nut
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love offering
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love of one's life
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love on
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love orgy
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love padlock
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovepat
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love philtre
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love pill
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love pillow
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love play
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love pocket
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love polygon
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love potion
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love powder
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love quadrangle
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lover
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love rat
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love recipe
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love rectangle
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love rose
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovertine
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love sausage
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love scam
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love scene
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love script
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loveseat
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love seat
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loveship
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-shy
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-shyness
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovesick
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love slave
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovesome
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love song
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love spoon
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love spud
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love spuds
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love stick
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovestone
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love story
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-struck
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love swing
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-tap
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love tap
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovetap
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love team
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loveteam
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love the sinner but hate the sin
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love token
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love tonic
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love tool
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love toy
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love triangle
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love truncheon
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love tunnel
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love up
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love vine
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love wand
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love-worthiness
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loveworthy
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love ya
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovey-dovey
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: love you
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovie
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loving kindness
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: lovish
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: loyal love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: make love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: make love to the camera
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: mislove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: money-love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: motherlove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: no glove no love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: no love lost
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: nonlove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: obsessive love disorder
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: only a mother could love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: outlove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: overlove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: parental love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: Persian love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: physical love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: platonic love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: play for love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: progressive love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: puppy love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: Queen of Love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: relove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: self-love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: self-loving
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: sisterly love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: soul-love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: the course of true love never did run smooth
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: the love of money is the root of all evil
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: tough-love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: tough love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: tree of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: true love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: truelove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: true-love knot
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: true-love-knot
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: tug of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: tunnel of love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: unlove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: unrequited love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: what's not to love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb love
word: zouk love
Related terms: word: lov
word: luv
word: wuv
word: charity
word: fall in love
word: revere