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love

love
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [luhv]
    • /lʌv/
    • /lʌv/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [luhv]
    • /lʌv/

Definitions of love word

  • noun love a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. 1
  • noun love a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. 1
  • noun love sexual passion or desire. 1
  • noun love a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart. 1
  • noun love (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love? 1
  • noun love a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour. 1

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Origin of love

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English lufu, cognate with Old Frisian luve, Old High German luba, Gothic lubō; (v.) Middle English lov(i)en, Old English lufian; cognate with Old Frisian luvia, Old High German lubōn to love, Latin lubēre (later libēre) to be pleasing; akin to lief

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Love

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

love popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

love usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for love

noun love

  • tenderness — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
  • appreciation — Appreciation of something is the recognition and enjoyment of its good qualities.
  • taste — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
  • fondness — the state or quality of being fond.
  • lust — intense sexual desire or appetite.

verb love

  • prize — leverage.
  • treasure — wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
  • prefer — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
  • admire — If you admire someone or something, you like and respect them very much.
  • choose — If you choose someone or something from several people or things that are available, you decide which person or thing you want to have.

Antonyms for love

noun love

  • animosity — Animosity is a strong feeling of dislike and anger. Animosities are feelings of this kind.
  • hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • ill will — hostile feeling; malevolence; enmity: to harbor ill will against someone.
  • dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
  • hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.

verb love

  • despise — If you despise something or someone, you dislike them and have a very low opinion of them.
  • castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
  • condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
  • degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
  • humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.

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