Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One's beloved; a sweetheart.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One truly loved or loving; one whose love is pledged to another; a sweetheart.
- n. A plant of Europe and temperate Asia, Paris quadrifolia: so named because its four leaves are set together in the form of heraldic true-love knot. Also herb-truelove. See herb-paris and Paris.
- n. A condiment for sweetening the breath.
- n. An ornament, probably shaped like a true-love knot.
- Indicating genuine love; affectionate; sincere.
Wiktionary
- n. One who is truly beloved; a true love.
- n. botany A plant, Paris quadrifolia.
- n. obsolete, nonce word An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, possibly an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One really beloved.
- n. (Bot.) A plant. See Paris.
- n. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person loved by another person
Etymologies
- true + love (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And if true love is a pearl of great price, ruining it would cause a lot of non-economic harm as well (though who commits adultery in a case of truelove?)”
The Volokh Conspiracy » $9 Million Alienation of Affections Damages Award
“Mike McDougal says: yankee: (though who commits adultery in a case of truelove?)”
The Volokh Conspiracy » $9 Million Alienation of Affections Damages Award
“And if true love is a pearl of great price, ruining it would cause a lot of non-economic harm as well though who commits adultery in a case of truelove?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » $9 Million Alienation of Affections Damages Award
“At last hearing the hour strike, he snatched up a felt hat, and putting it on his greasy head started off to meet his truelove.”
“When he reached Mionge Lane he met his pretty truelove skipping along most lady-like and primly.”
“He was sitting in his room waiting for the town clock to strike four, because when it did he had to go out and meet his truelove, whose name was Edith Plush.”
“Well - maybe not my truelove - hey Carolyn - but Eddie, Eddie.”
“On the third day of Advent, my truelove gave to me ........ lol”
“Tsar's Bride, with its feast of plot complications and consequent musical situations: licentious boyar Grisha Gryaznoi (heroic baritone) lusts for Marfa (coloratura soprano), though she is about to wed her truelove Lykov (romantic tenor).”
“yankee: though who commits adultery in a case of truelove?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » $9 Million Alienation of Affections Damages Award
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘truelove’.
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A Love List
lovely, loveable, lovemaking, love-suit, loveless, love-hate, lovey, lovelorn, lovesick, love-sickness, lovefest, lovebird and 91 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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There's a sucker born every minute
Confections to sweeten the breath.
dragée, cachou, betel, chew, chaw, gum, bubblegum, gumball, mint, peppermint, mint imperial, after dinner mint and 21 more...
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Hearticulating
All sorts of names or terms for romantic partners: vague, clinical, physical, sleazy, cheesy, co-dependent, demeaning, sarcastic, or the dutifully committed. This is to provide a wide-range of le...
couple, partner, lover, sweetheart, significant other, confidant, consort, mate, better half, paramour, accomplice, counterpart and 52 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Collection
Many words, all kinds.
pure, damsel, warrior, knight, helenium, endear, gilravage, paraselene, truelove, favrile, embouchure
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