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American Heritage Dictionary (28 definitions)
- A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
- A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
- Sexual passion.
- Sexual intercourse.
- A love affair.
- An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.
- A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.
- An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.
- A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language.
- The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love.
- Mythology Eros or Cupid.
- Christianity Charity.
- Sports A zero score in tennis.
- To have a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward (a person): We love our parents. I love my friends.
- To have a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward (a person).
- To have an intense emotional attachment to: loves his house.
- To embrace or caress.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To like or desire enthusiastically: loves swimming.
- Theology To have charity for.
- To thrive on; need: The cactus loves hot, dry air.
- To experience deep affection or intense desire for another.
- for love Out of compassion; with no thought for a reward: She volunteers at the hospital for love.
- for love or money Under any circumstances. Usually used in negative sentences: I would not do that for love or money.
- for the love of For the sake of; in consideration for: did it all for the love of praise.
- in love Deeply or passionately enamored: a young couple in love.
- in love Highly or immoderately fond: in love with Japanese painting; in love with the sound of her own voice.
- no love lost No affection; animosity: There's no love lost between them.
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And if you insist that your love is at _my_ feet, I have only to turn Irish and reply that it is because I am heels over head in love with you: -- and, mark you, that is no pretty attitude for a lady that you have driven me into in order that I may stick to my "crown"!
An amiable girl, in love with Egerton McSycophant, by whom her love is amply returned.
She, who had not reckoned upon seeing the chevalier again, received him with all the raptures of which a woman in love is capable, especially when her love is a forbidden one.
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Middle English, from Old English lufu; see leubh- in Indo-European roots.
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