Definition of love love in English English dictionary
- I have to love you and leave you
- Used as an affectionate way of saying goodbye
- I love you
- An affirmation of affection or deep caring especially to a family member
- I love you
- A platonic expression of inclination or liking to a friend
I love you man, but you need some professional help.
- I love you
- An affirmation of romantic feeling to a lover or spouse
- I'm in love with you
- A declaration of passion or romantic feeling
- Love
- An English surname
- Love wave
- A seismic surface shock wave, which is also known as a Q-wave, with a lateral horizontal movement perpendicular to the direction of propagation
- Love waves
- plural form of Love wave
- Summer of Love
- The summer of 1967, noted for its love-ins and the flourishing of the hippie movement
- all's fair in love and war
- unpleasant behavior is acceptable during love and conflict
- brotherly love
- A kindly and lenient attitude towards others
- brotherly love
- Agape
- calf love
- puppy love
- cupboard love
- Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange
You don't owe them anything Stephen, its just cupboard love...suddenly they need you...you said it yourself, they never contacted you before.
- fall in love
- To come to have feelings of love towards each other
They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after.
- fall in love
- To come to have feelings of love directed at another person or a thing
I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him.
- fall in love
- To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing
I have just fallen in love with Rome!.
- falling in love
- Present participle of fall in love
- falling in love
- The action of the verb to fall in love
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
- for the love of
- Used to form interjections expressing exasperation
- for the love of God
- Expresses exasperation; for Pete's sake; for crying out loud; for fuck's sake; sakes
- for the love of Mike
- for the love of God
For the love of Mike! What did you pay? Ten thousand francs apiece. But, Irma, that's preposterous! He never got half that for a painting in all his life..
- free love
- the practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment
- get your coat love, you've pulled
- A chat-up line used to show the speaker is willing and ready to take the interlocutor out of the bar, suggesting sex
- if you love somebody, set them free
- One should be willing to let go of someone they love if they truly love them
- in love
- (followed by with) very fond (of an idea, etc)
I'm not exactly in love with the idea of having to start again from scratch.
- in love
- enamored
Isn't it nice to see two people in love?.
- in love
- (followed by with) enamored (of a person, etc)
Romeo was in love with Juliet.
- in love with
- See in love
- labor of love
- A task performed voluntarily without expectation of reimbursement; an altruistic work or undertaking
Writing a textbook has become more a labor of love than a money-making enterprise, wrote the professor, because of the peculiar way the books are now marketed.
- labors of love
- plural form of labor of love
- labour of love
- Alternative spelling of labor of love
- labours of love
- plural form of labour of love
- love
- To derive delight from a fact or situation
I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
- love
- A deep or abiding liking for something
My love of cricket knows no bounds.
- love
- To care deeply about, to be dedicated to
You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Matt. 22:37-38).
- love
- To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
I wish I could love her all night long.
- love
- To have a strong affection for
I know how difficult your position is, I said; but don't feel that you are alone. There is--is one here who--who would do anything in the world for you, I ended lamely. She did not withdraw her hand, and she looked up into my face with tears on her cheeks and I read in her eyes the thanks her lips could not voice. Then she looked away across the weird moonlit landscape and sighed. Evidently her new-found philosophy had tumbled about her ears, for she was seemingly taking herself seriously. I 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.
- love
- A profound and caring attraction towards someone
Your love is the most important thing in my life.
- love
- zero, no score
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
- love
- The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart
I met my love by the gasworks wall.
- love
- An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person
A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
- love
- To need, thrive on
Mold loves moist, dark places.
- love
- To lust for
- love
- A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings
Hello, love, how can I help you?.
- love
- To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like
I love what you've done with your hair.
- love affair
- An affair; an adulterous relationship. Used colloquially to distinguish which type of affair, leaving less room for doubt
- love affairs
- plural form of love affair
- love apple
- A tomato
- love apples
- plural form of love apple
- love at first sight
- an instantaneous attraction
- love bite
- A swelling on the skin caused by someone (or something) sucking the skin
- love bites
- plural form of love bite
- love bomb
- A type of chemical weapon that makes enemy soldiers attracted to each other
- love child
- A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child
Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love).
- love children
- plural form of love child
- love doll
- A sex toy in the size and shape of a human sexual partner for aid in masturbation
- love drug
- The drug ecstasy
- love drug
- The drug Viagra
- love egg
- A small vibrating egg-shaped sex toy designed for vaginal or anal stimulation
- love eggs
- plural form of love egg
- love feast
- a banquet or gathering to promote goodwill among the participants
- love feast
- a symbolic meal eaten to celebrate brotherly love, particularly one practiced by early Christians celebrating agape
- love feasts
- plural form of love feast
- love game
- A game in which one of the two players scored no point
- love grass
- Any of several grasses, of the genus Eragrostis, grown as a forage crop or to protect against erosion
- love handle
- a protruding area of fat on the side of the body, above the hips
- love handles
- plural form of love handle
- love hotel
- A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing couples privacy to have sexual intercourse
- love hotels
- plural form of love hotel
- love interest
- Any of the characters involved in such a plot
- love interest
- A romantic plot or subplot in a film or book
- love interests
- plural form of love interest
- love is blind
- A person who is in love can see no faults or imperfections in the person who is loved
- love letter
- A letter written about the author's love for the intended reader
We never see each other, but have been sending love letters every Valentine's Day for 10 years.
- love letters
- plural form of love letter
- love life
- An individual's amorous, and/or sexual, relationships
- love muscle
- penis
- love muscles
- plural form of love muscle
- love nest
- A room, especially a bedroom or boudoir, used for sexual intercourse
- love nest
- vagina
He....jerked my legs apart and, while the unconscious old kraut's juice seeped from my love nest, buried his face in the moist crevice, sucking, licking and lapping with the energy of ten men.
- love nest
- A residence, especially a condominium or cabin, where a couple (particularly a newly married couple) can enjoy each other's company
- love potion
- A drink supposed to have the magic power to make the drinker fall in love with a specified person
- love rat
- An adulterer; a two-timer; somebody who has an affair whilst in a relationship
- love seat
- A small sofa for two people, British: two-seater settee
- love seats
- plural form of love seat
- love song
- A song about love
- love spoon
- An ornately carved spoon, sometimes with double bowl, traditionally made from a single piece of wood by young men, especially in Wales, as a love token for a sweetheart
- love spoons
- plural form of love spoon
- love taps
- plural form of love tap
- love to bits
- To love (someone or something) a lot
- love triangle
- A situation in which two people vie for the love of a third
- love triangles
- plural form of love triangle
- love up
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- love up
- To make love to
I was just in my pajamas and slippers, and I blushed because she was looking at me. Then she whispered, Take off your jammies, and love me up good, Arlene. Please, I want you to..
- love ya
- I love you
- love-bite
- Alternative form of love bite
- love-child
- Alternative spelling of love child
- love-egg
- Attributive form of love egg
love-egg use.
- love-hate
- involving feelings of both love and hate, often simultaneously
- love-in
- a social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being
- love-in-a-mist
- Nigella damascena, an annual flowering plant of the genus Nigella, the blooms of which are generally blue in colour, though also found in shades of pink, white or pale purple
- love-lies-bleeding
- A tropical plant, Amaranthus caudatus, that has clusters of little red flowers
- make love
- To flirt; to romance
- make love
- To engage in sexual intercourse
- make love, not war
- A hippie anti-war slogan encouraging love and peace
- makes love
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make love
- making love
- Present participle of make love
- no glove, no love
- Without a condom, there will be no sex
- no love lost
- dislike, animosity
There was no love lost between the two opponents.
- parental love
- By extension, love which is similar to parental love
- parental love
- The love of parents towards their children
- platonic love
- Intimate but non-sexual affection
- play for love
- to play a game of cards without stakes
- puppy love
- A childish or youthful infatuation with another person
They're only teenagers; it's hard to take their puppy love seriously.
- self-love
- Regard for oneself, love of oneself
- self-love
- Excessive pride or vanity, over valuing the self
- sisterly love
- Feminine variant of brotherly love
- the course of true love never did run smooth
- There will always be problems in a relationship
- tough love
- The compassionate use of stringent disciplinary measures, to attempt to improve someone's behavior
When it came to Latin America's economic travails, Bush adhered to the principle of tough love: no more bailouts.
- true love
- The form of romantic affection that is considered pure and wholly positive, not just based on feelings of lust
- true love
- The unique individual for whom one feels such affection
- true-love-knot
- a bracelet which partners both wear to show their love
As in a stupor, forging headlong forward she was overtaken in the vicinity of Valopolis by the evening voiture of Madame Mimosa, the lady's monogram, Kiki, wreathed in true-love-knots, emblazoning triply the doors and rear.
- tug of love
- A dispute concerning which of two separated parents should have custody of one or more children
- tugs of love
- plural form of tug of love
- unconditional love
- Affection felt for someone that is not dependant on certain qualities or actions
Mothers have unconditional love for their children.
- unrequited love
- Love that is not reciprocated, even though reciprocation is desired
To her mind, a girl who would tell of the unrequited love of a man for herself, was unspeakably base.
- love
- 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
- love
- {f} have great affection for; feel a passionate attraction to; be fond of; hug and kiss; have sexual intercourse with; like a great deal, be enthusiastic about
- love
- 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
- love
- {v} to regard with affection, like, value
- love
- {n} a passion, friendship, kindness, silk stuff
- cupboard love
- A show of affection motivated by selfishness
