Love,

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin
     to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh
     to be lustful. See {Lief}.]
     1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which
        delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or
        devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love


        of brothers and sisters.
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              Of all the dearest bonds we prove
              Thou countest sons' and mothers' love
              Most sacred, most Thine own.          --Keble.
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     2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate
        affection for, one of the opposite sex.
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              He on his side
              Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love
              Hung over her enamored.               --Milton.
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     3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e.,
        to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
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              Demetrius . . .
              Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
              And won her soul.                     --Shak.
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     4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or
        desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to {hate}; often
        with of and an object.
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              Love, and health to all.              --Shak.
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              Smit with the love of sacred song.    --Milton.
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              The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
                                                    --Fenton.
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     5. Due gratitude and reverence to God.
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              Keep yourselves in the love of God.   --Jude 21.
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     6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing
        address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest
        love was reading. "Trust me, love." --Dryden.
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              Open the temple gates unto my love.   --Spenser.
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     7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
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              Such was his form as painters, when they show
              Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow. --Dryden.
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              Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
                                                    --Shak.
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     8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.] --Boyle.
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     9. (Bot.) A climbing species of C{lematis} ({Clematis
        Vitalba}).
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     10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in
         counting score at tennis, etc.
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               He won the match by three sets to love. --The
                                                    Field.
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     11. Sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism.
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     Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in
           most of which the meaning is very obvious; as,
           love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked,
           love-taught, etc.
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     {A labor of love}, a labor undertaken on account of regard
        for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself,
        without expectation of reward.
  
     {Free love}, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one
        of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See
        {Free love}.
  
     {Free lover}, one who avows or practices free love.
  
     {In love}, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of
        the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love.
  
     {Love apple} (Bot.), the tomato.
  
     {Love bird} (Zool.), any one of several species of small,
        short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus
        {Agapornis}, and allied genera. They are mostly from
        Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are
        celebrated for the affection which they show for their
        mates.
  
     {Love broker}, a person who for pay acts as agent between
        lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak.
  
     {Love charm}, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton.
  
     {Love child}. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen.
  
     {Love day}, a day formerly appointed for an amicable
        adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
        --Chaucer.
  
     {Love drink}, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer.
  
     {Love favor}, something given to be worn in token of love.
  
     {Love feast}, a religious festival, held quarterly by some
        religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists,
        in imitation of the agap[ae] of the early Christians.
  
     {Love feat}, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak.
  
     {Love game}, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished
        person or party does not score a point.
  
     {Love grass}. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus
        {Eragrostis}.
  
     {Love-in-a-mist}. (Bot.)
         (a) An herb of the Buttercup family ({Nigella Damascena})
             having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut
             bracts.
         (b) The West Indian {Passiflora f[oe]tida}, which has
             similar bracts.
  
     {Love-in-idleness} (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy.
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              A little western flower,
              Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound;
              And maidens call it love-in-idleness. --Shak.
  
     {Love juice}, juice of a plant supposed to produce love.
        --Shak.
  
     {Love knot}, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from
        being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual
        affection. --Milman.
  
     {Love lass}, a sweetheart.
  
     {Love letter}, a letter of courtship. --Shak.
  
     {Love-lies-bleeding} (Bot.), a species of amaranth
        ({Amarantus melancholicus}).
  
     {Love match}, a marriage brought about by love alone.
  
     {Love potion}, a compounded draught intended to excite love,
        or venereal desire.
  
     {Love rites}, sexual intercourse. --Pope
  
     {Love scene}, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the
        stage.
  
     {Love suit}, courtship. --Shak.
  
     {Of all loves}, for the sake of all love; by all means.
        [Obs.] "Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back
        again." --Holinshed.
  
     {The god of love}, or {The Love god}, Cupid.
  
     {To make love}, to engage in sexual intercourse; -- a
        euphemism.
  
     {To make love to}, to express affection for; to woo. "If you
        will marry, make your loves to me." --Shak.
  
     {To play for love}, to play a game, as at cards, without
        stakes. "A game at piquet for love." --Lamb.
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     Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness;
          delight.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loved} (l[u^]vd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Loving}.] [AS. lufian. [root]124. See {Love},
     n.]
     1. To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or
        good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love
        one's country; to love one's God.
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              Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
              and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
                                                    --Matt. xxii.
                                                    37.
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              Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. --Matt.
                                                    xxii. 39.
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     2. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that
        of one sex for the other.
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     3. To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or
        desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like;
        as, to love books; to love adventures.
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              Wit, eloquence, and poetry.
              Arts which I loved.                   --Cowley.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Love \Love\, v. i.
     To have the feeling of love; to be in love.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  love
       n 1: a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love
            for his work"; "children need a lot of love" [ant: {hate}]
       2: any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was
          her first love" or "he has a passion for cock fighting";
          [syn: {passion}]
       3: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment [syn: {beloved},
           {dear}, {dearest}, {loved one}, {honey}]
       4: a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love
          left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his
          first love"
       5: a score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love"
       6: sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse)
          between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he
          hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated
          love life" [syn: {sexual love}, {lovemaking}, {making love},
           {love life}]
       v 1: have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food";
            "She loves her boss and works hard for him" [ant: {hate}]
       2: get pleasure from; "I love cooking" [syn: {enjoy}]
       3: be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply"
       4: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
          everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
          intimate with this man?" [syn: {roll in the hay}, {make
          out}, {make love}, {sleep with}, {get laid}, {have sex}, {know},
           {do it}, {be intimate}, {have intercourse}, {have it away},
           {have it off}, {screw}, {fuck}, {jazz}, {eff}, {hump}, {lie
          with}, {bed}, {have a go at it}, {bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  342 Moby Thesaurus words for "love":
     Amor, Aphrodite, Astarte, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity,
     Christian love, Cupid, Eros, Freya, Kama, Love, Venus, accord,
     accordance, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulate,
     adulation, affair, affection, affinity, agape, agreement, aim at,
     allegiance, altruism, amiability, amiableness, amicability,
     amicableness, amity, amor, amorousness, amour, angel, appreciate,
     ardency, ardor, attachment, attraction, babe, baby, baby-doll,
     bang, bask in, be all heart, be desirous of, be fond of,
     be partial to, be pleased with, beau, beloved, beloved object,
     beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness,
     bent, best love, best regards, best wishes, betrothed,
     bigheartedness, bonds of harmony, bonk, boyfriend, brotherhood,
     brotherly love, burn with love, buttercup, cardinal virtues, care,
     care for, caress, caritas, carnality, cement of friendship,
     charitableness, charity, cherish, cherub, chick, chickabiddy,
     choose, coldness, communion, community, community of interests,
     compatibility, compliments, concern, concord, concordance,
     congeniality, correspondence, cosset, crush, cuddle, dandle,
     darling, dear, dear one, dearly beloved, deary, deify, delight,
     delight in, derive pleasure from, desiderate, desire, devoirs,
     devotion, devour, disposition, do-goodism, doll, dote, dote on,
     dote upon, duck, duckling, eat up, egards, embrace, emotion,
     empathy, enjoy, enjoyment, enthusiasm, esprit, esprit de corps,
     exalt, faith, fancy, favor, fealty, feast on, feeling of identity,
     fellow feeling, fellowship, fervor, fiance, fiancee, fidelity,
     flesh, fleshliness, flower power, fondle, fondness, fortitude,
     freak out on, frictionlessness, friendliness, friendship,
     frigidity, fuck, generosity, get high on, girl, giving, gloat over,
     go for, good vibes, good vibrations, good wishes, goodwill, grace,
     greatheartedness, greetings, groove on, gust, gusto, guy,
     happy family, harmony, hate, have deep feelings, have designs on,
     have eyes for, have it bad, have sex, hold dear, hon, honey,
     honey bunch, honey child, hope, humanitarianism, hump, identity,
     idolatry, idolize, impotence, inamorata, inamorato, inclination,
     indulge in, infatuation, intended, intrigue, justice, kind regards,
     kindest regards, kindness, kinship, know, lamb, lambkin,
     largeheartedness, leaning, liaison, libido, light of love, like,
     like-mindedness, likes, liking, love affair, love of mankind,
     loved one, lovemaking, lover, loyalty, lust, lust after,
     luxuriate in, make out, man, mania, marriage, mate, mutuality,
     natural virtues, neck, neighborlikeness, neighborliness, oneness,
     partiality, passion, peace, peaceableness, pet, petkins,
     philanthropism, philanthropy, piety, pleasure, potency, precious,
     precious heart, predilection, prefer, preference, prize,
     proclivity, prudence, rapport, rapprochement, rapture, reciprocity,
     regard, regards, rejoice in, relationship, relish, remembrances,
     respects, revel in, revere, riot in, romance, savor, screw,
     sensuality, sentiment, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct,
     sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, sharing, sisterhood,
     smack the lips, snookums, sociability, solicitude, solidarity,
     sugar, suitor, supernatural virtues, swain, sweet, sweetheart,
     sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, swim in, sympathy, symphony, take,
     take pleasure in, take to, tally, taste, team spirit, temperance,
     tenderness, theological virtues, thing, treasure, truelove,
     turtledove, understanding, unhostility, union, unison, unity,
     utilitarianism, value, venerate, voluptuousness, wallow in, want,
     warmth, weakness, welfarism, well-affectedness, well-beloved,
     well-disposedness, wish, wish to goodness, wish very much, woman,
     worship, would fain do, yearning, young man, zeal
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  love
       
          What many users feel for computers.
       
          "I don't really love computers, I just say that to get them
          into bed with me". (Terry Pratchet)
       
          [What did you expect in a computing dictionary?]
       
          (1995-05-10)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Love
     This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its
     use by our Lord in his interview with "Simon, the son of Jonas,"
     after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says,
     "Lovest thou me?" he uses the Greek word _agapas_; and when
     Simon answers, he uses the Greek word _philo_, i.e., "I love."
     This is the usage in the first and second questions put by our
     Lord; but in the third our Lord uses Simon's word. The
     distinction between these two Greek words is thus fitly
     described by Trench:, "_Agapan_ has more of judgment and
     deliberate choice; _philein_ has more of attachment and peculiar
     personal affection. Thus the 'Lovest thou' (Gr. agapas) on the
     lips of the Lord seems to Peter at this moment too cold a word,
     as though his Lord were keeping him at a distance, or at least
     not inviting him to draw near, as in the passionate yearning of
     his heart he desired now to do. Therefore he puts by the word
     and substitutes his own stronger 'I love' (Gr. philo) in its
     room. A second time he does the same. And now he has conquered;
     for when the Lord demands a third time whether he loves him, he
     does it in the word which alone will satisfy Peter ('Lovest
     thou,' Gr. phileis), which alone claims from him that personal
     attachment and affection with which indeed he knows that his
     heart is full."
     
       In 1 Cor. 13 the apostle sets forth the excellency of love, as
     the word "charity" there is rendered in the Revised Version.
     

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  LOVE, n.  A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of
  the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. 
  This disease, like _caries_ and many other ailments, is prevalent only
  among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous
  nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from
  its ravages.  It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
  physician than to the patient.
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Love -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
     Population (2000):    8831
     Housing Units (2000): 4066
     Land area (2000):     515.382755 sq. miles (1334.835151 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    16.560771 sq. miles (42.892198 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    531.943526 sq. miles (1377.727349 sq. km)
     Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
     Location:             33.941304 N, 97.194143 W
     Headwords:
      Love
      Love, OK
      Love County
      Love County, OK