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Love

noun

1.

A strong positive emotion of regard and affection. "Children need a lot of love"

2.

Any object of warm affection or devotion. Synonym: passion. "He has a passion for cock fighting"

3.

A beloved person; used as terms of endearment. Synonyms: beloved, dear, dearest, honey.

4.

A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction. Synonyms: erotic love, sexual love. "She was his first love"

5.

A score of zero in tennis or squash.

6.

Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people. Synonyms: love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love. "He hadn't had any love in months" , "He has a very complicated love life"

verb

(past & past part. loved; pres. part. loving)

1.

Have a great affection or liking for. "She loves her boss and works hard for him"

2.

Get pleasure from. Synonym: enjoy.

3.

Be enamored or in love with.

4.

Have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with. "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

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"Love" Quotes from Famous Books

... precepts in which we are instructed? I say unto you: Love your enemies, bless them that curse, pray for them that persecute you; that ye may become the sons of your Father which is in heaven: who maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on ...

— The Gospels in the Second Century - An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work - Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' • William Sanday

... hands on him, you'll be hearing his version from the dock!" retorted Mr. Lindsey. "Your natural love of letting things go smoothly, Portlethorpe, is leading you into strange courses! Man alive!—take a look at the whole thing from a dispassionate attitude! Since the fellow got hold of the Hathercleugh property, he's sold everything, practically, but Hathercleugh ...

— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher

... the most appalling desolations of the Great Saharan Wilderness. This should teach us to lower our pretensions, and take a large discount from our merits in originating our various enterprises; but, alas! our over-weening self-love always manages to get the better of us. The brochure alluded to was a number of the Revue de L'Orient, published at Paris, containing a notice of Ghadames by M. Subtil, the notorious sulphur[6]-explorer ...

— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... flashed, smiling on him then— Such eyes hold fiery, earnest men In bondage, and to love beguile, Whether they mock, or ...

— Daisy Dare, and Baby Power - Poems • Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

... different from other flowers. Most of them I am well content to leave where they grow. In fact, the love of picking things—flowers or anything else—is a youthful taste: we lose it as we grow older; we become more and more willing to appreciate without acquiring, or rather, appreciation becomes to us a finer and more spiritual form of acquiring. Is it possible ...

— More Jonathan Papers • Elisabeth Woodbridge

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