LOVE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Love

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Love

noun

1.

A strong positive emotion of regard and affection. "Children need a lot of love"

2.

Any object of warm affection or devotion. Synonym: passion. "He has a passion for cock fighting"

3.

A beloved person; used as terms of endearment. Synonyms: beloved, dear, dearest, honey.

4.

A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction. Synonyms: erotic love, sexual love. "She was his first love"

5.

A score of zero in tennis or squash.

6.

Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people. Synonyms: love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love. "He hadn't had any love in months" , "He has a very complicated love life"

verb

(past & past part. loved; pres. part. loving)

1.

Have a great affection or liking for. "She loves her boss and works hard for him"

2.

Get pleasure from. Synonym: enjoy.

3.

Be enamored or in love with.

4.

Have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with. "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

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"Love" Quotes from Famous Books

... among grown-up people. Take as an instance his visit to the Brothers Grimm, when he asked the servant girl which of the brothers was the more learned, and when she answered "Jacob," he said, "Then take me to Jacob." The little love affair, too, which he confides seems to have been of the kind which one is apt to experience during the pinafore period; a little more serious, perhaps, but yet of the same kind. It is in this vague and impersonal style that princes and princesses ...

— Essays on Scandinavian Literature • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... wretched fortune; but I enjoyed playing the child before you—I really love Olivia—and it seemed that the fairies were protecting me and that I could play being a child to the very end of the chapter without any real mischief coming of it. I wish I were Olivia!” she declared, her eyes away ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

... and a man in a small canoe went before them sounding for places not too deep for them, breast and chin deep, and Hassani fell and hurt himself sorely in a hole. The people have goats and sheep, and love them as they ...

— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 • David Livingstone

... years hence the twain will be as much in love with each other as two old codgers of my acquaintance, who go on talking heavenly nonsense to each other after the ...

— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss

... of that, and I am equally sure that time will prove it—that he will never rise again with his old hope and faith out of that black pit into which he sank when he came face to face with the realization that there were forces in life—in nature perhaps, more potent than his love and his own ...

— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood

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