love
爱,爱情,爱心,爱意
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Definitions
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- : a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- : a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
- : sexual passion or desire.
- : a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
- : : Would you like to see a movie, love?
- : a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour.
- : sexual intercourse; copulation.
- : a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.
- : affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor.
- : strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books.
- : the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love.
- : the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.
- : Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.
- : a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.
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loved, lov·ing.
- : to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her.
- : to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for.
- : to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music.
- : to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.
- : to embrace and kiss, as a lover.
- : to have sexual intercourse with.
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loved, lov·ing.
- : to have love or affection for another person; be in love.
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- : love up, to hug and cuddle: She loves him up every chance she gets.
Phrases
- love affair
- love at first sight
- all's fair in love and war
- course of true love
- fall in love
- for the love of
- labor of love
- make love
- misery loves company
- no love lost
- not for love or money
- puppy love
- somebody up there loves me
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Every now and again, we come across a love story that touches our hearts in more ways than be.
Again, I didn’t think much of it as a 15-year-old, but I just had a love for food.
Ideally you should be growing and evolving at similar rates and speeds for romantic love, I should say.
She’d met me in 1986, at a party for returned Peace Corps volunteers and had fallen in love with the guy who’d just spent two years teaching in Swaziland.
To be a real home cook, the kind who put love and attention into each dish, was to make everything yourself.
What happened to true love knows no boundaries and all that?
“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.
And we have a lot of great guests this season: Greta Gerwig, Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi is back—I love that guy.
You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.