affection
1 [U] a strong feeling of deep affection for sb/sth, especially a member of your family or a friend:
a mother's love for her children * love of your country * He seems incapable of love.
romantic
2 [U] a strong feeling of affection for sb that you are sexually attracted to:
a love song / story * We're in love! * She was in love with him. * They fell in love with each other. * It was love at first sight (= they were attracted to each other the first time they met). * They're madly in love. * Their love grew with the years.
enjoyment
3 [U,sing.] the strong feeling of enjoyment that sth gives you:
a love of learning / nature / music * He's in love with his work. * I fell in love with the house.
sb / sth you like
4 [C] 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.
friendly name
5 [C] (BrE, spoken, informal) a word used as a friendly way of addressing sb:
Can I help you, love?
compareDUCK
in tennis
6 [U] a score of zero (points or games):
40love! * She won the first set sixlove / six games to love.
IDIOMS
(just) for love
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for love is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is love a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, love is tagged as noun.
Does love appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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