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love(noun)/lʌv/ /lʌv/- a very strong feeling of liking and caring for somebody/something, especially a member of your family or a friend
SEE ALSO self-love
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/self-love - She has earned the love and respect of many people.
- a mother’s unconditional love for her children
- love of your country
Extra Examples- From John, she received the love she had never received from her father.
- He seems incapable of love.
- They lavish love on Selah, their cat.
- a strong feeling of romantic attraction for somebody
SEE ALSO courtly love
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/courtly-love - I'm sure you will find true love.
- We're in love!
- They're madly in love.
- She has been in and out of love many times.
- She was in love with him.
- They fell in love with each other.
- There wasn't anyone else in his life; he simply fell out of love with her.
- They finally expressed their love for each other.
- It was love at first sight (= they were attracted to each other the first time they met).
- It is a story of unrequited love (= love that is not returned).
- romantic/undying/passionate love
- a love song/story
Extra Examples- At last she had found true love.
- Does she doubt my love for her?
- He did not know how to express his love for her.
- He didn't return her love.
- I did it for love!
- In his music dramas, love conquers all.
- Love blossomed between the two of them.
- She felt no love for him.
- They publicly declared their love for each other.
- You have my undying love.
- Their love grew with the years.
- the strong feeling of pleasure that something gives you
- They shared a love of learning.
- her love for her garden
- He's in love with his work.
- I fell in love with the house.
Extra Examples- He developed a lifelong love of music.
- He had a great love of life.
- He had an abiding love of the English countryside.
- His wealth enabled him to indulge his love of fast cars.
- a person, a thing or an activity that you like very much
- Take care, my love.
- He was the love of my life (= the person I loved most).
- I like most sports but tennis is my first love.
- a word used as a friendly way of addressing somebody
COMPARE duck
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/duck_2 - Can I help you, love?
- a score of zero (points or games)
- 40–love!
- She won the first set six-love/six games to love.
- in some situations any type of behaviour is acceptable to get what you want
- love that somebody, especially a child, shows towards somebody else in order to get something
- without receiving payment or any other reward
- They're all volunteers, working for the love of it.
- used when you are expressing anger and the fact that you are impatient
- For the love of God, tell me what he said!
- used to send good wishes to somebody
- Give my love to Mary when you see her.
- Bob sends his love.
- loving somebody very much
- He's fallen head over heels in love with his boss.
- a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary
- Writing the book was a labour of love.
- used at the end of a letter to a friend or to somebody you love, followed by your name
- Lots of love, Jenny
- See you soon. Love, Steve.
- when you love somebody, you cannot see their faults
- to have sex
- It was the first time they had made love.
- if you say you cannot do something for love nor money, you mean it is completely impossible to do it
- We couldn't find a taxi for love nor money.
- they do not like each other
- There's no love lost between her and her in-laws.
Word Origin- Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati ‘desires’, Latin libet ‘it is pleasing’, libido ‘desire’, also by the noun leave and lief.
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