1 feeling or showing love and affection for sb/sth:
a warm and loving family * She chose the present with loving care.
2 (-loving) (in adjectives) enjoying the object or activity mentioned:
fun-loving young people
lovingly adverb:
He gazed lovingly at his children. * The house has been lovingly restored.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for loving is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is loving a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, loving is tagged as adjective.
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