Love

noun loves · loue · luv

1. uncountable A deep caring for the existence of another.
2. countable, uncountable A profound and caring affection towards someone. A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
3. countable, uncountable Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being. The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is … the highest of all the Divine commands[.]
4. countable, uncountable A feeling of intense attraction towards someone. I have never been in love as much as I have with you.
5. countable, uncountable A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something. My love of cricket knows no bounds.
6. countable A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved. Open the temple gates unto my love.
7. Commonwealth, colloquial, countable, uncountable A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. Hello love, how can I help you?
8. countable, uncountable A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm. But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."
9. countable, euphemistic, uncountable Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction. The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.
10. countable, euphemistic, uncountable Sexual activity. —What think you, my lord, of... love? —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
11. countable, uncountable An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair. Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.
12. countable, uncountable Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
13. countable, uncountable Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).Love At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; …
14. countable, obsolete, uncountable A thin silk material. Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.
15. countable, uncountable A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
16. countable, obsolete, uncountable Charity.

verb loves · loving · loved · love

1. intransitive, sometimes, stative, transitive, usually To have a strong affection for (someone or something). I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!
2. transitive To need, thrive on. Mold loves moist, dark places.
3. transitive To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair
4. intransitive, sometimes, transitive, usually To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something). 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.
5. ironic, sometimes, transitive To derive delight from a fact or situation. I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
6. Internet Synonym of heart (verb). She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
7. euphemistic, transitive To have sex with (perhaps from make love). I wish I could love her all night long.

Similar: cherish, go to bed with, sleep with, care for, cling to, dote, fancy, love

noun loue · luv

1. uncountable Zero, no score. So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
2. uncountable Nothing; no recompense. I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.

verb loves · loving · loved · loue · luv

1. alternative Alternative form of lofe (“to praise, sell”).lofe

Similar: care for, cling to, dote, fancy, love

noun

1. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.

proper noun Loves

1. countable, uncountable A surname. Elisheva Baskin and Michael Stein are to be married Sunday evening at the Palisadium, an event space in Cliffside Park, N.J. Rabbi Yaacov Love is to officiate.
2. countable, uncountable A male given name.
3. countable, uncountable A female given name.
4. countable, uncountable Cupid, Eros, or another personification of love. To Hymen's bower young Cupid came, And each with each was quite delighted; Love shot his dart of surest aim, And Hymen's brightest torch was lighted.
5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.

proper noun

1. slang The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica Mars. The complicated and, for fans, mostly frustrating relationship between these characters is the reason why stories dealing with Spuffy and LoVe pairings are by far more popular than stories based on any other possible ship.