love
Meanings
- A deep caring for the existence of another.
- Strong affection.
- A profound and caring affection towards someone.
- Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
- A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
- A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
- A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
- A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
- A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
- Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
- Sexual activity.
- An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
- To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
- To need, thrive on.
- To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
- To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
- To derive delight from a fact or situation.
- Synonym of heart (verb).
- To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
- Zero, no score.
- Nothing; no recompense.
- Alternative form of lofe (“to praise, sell”).
- radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.
- A surname.
- A male given name.
- A female given name.
- Cupid, Eros, or another personification of love.
- An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
- The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica Mars.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”). The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like. The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun. Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from Norman amour (“love”). Cognates Cognate with Scots luve (“love”), Saterland Frisian ljo, ljoo, ljoof (“dear, sweet”), Ljoote, Ljoowe (“love”), West Frisian leaf (“friendly, kind, cordial”), leafde (“love”), Dutch lief (“lovely, nice, sweet”), liefde (“love”), German lieb (“dear; lovable”), Liebe (“love”), German Low German Leevde, Lieve (“love”), Luxembourgish léif (“lovely, kind, nice, sweet”), Léift (“love”), Vilamovian łiwa (“love”), Yiddish ליב (lib, “nice; kind”), Icelandic ljúfur (“beloved, dear”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish ljuv (“lovely, sweet”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (liufs, “beloved, dear”), Albanian lyp (“to beg”), Russian любовь (ljubovʹ, “love”), Lithuanian liaupsė (“praise”), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić (“to like”), Persian آلفتن (âloftan, “to enamor”), Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).