love

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To care very deeply about someone.

   I love you and I always will.

2. 2
   verb

   To like something very much; to enjoy greatly.

   I love French food, especially the cheese.

3. 3
   noun

   A strong feeling of deep affection for someone.

   Their love for their family was obvious to everyone.

4. 4
   noun

   Something you enjoy or care about very much.

   The theatre has always been her first love.

Common collocations

• courtly love Adjective + noun
• erotic love Adjective + noun
• platonic love Adjective + noun
• motherly love Adjective + noun
• passionate love Adjective + noun

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 (“lov…

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