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Definition love

Etymology 1

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-Germanic *lub?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“love, care, desire”).

The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.

The verb is from Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from the noun lufu (“love”), see above.

Noun

love (countable and uncountable, plural loves)

1. (uncountable) Strong affection.
   1. A profound and caring affection towards someone.
   2. Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
   3. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
   4. A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
2. (countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
3. (colloquial, Commonwealth of Nations) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
4. A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
5. (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
6. (euphemistic) Sexual activity.
7. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
8. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
9. Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
10. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
11. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.

Verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

1. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
2. (transitive) To need, thrive on.
3. (transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
4. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
5. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
6. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

Etymology 2

From Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”), from Proto-Germanic *lub?n? (“to praise, vow”), from *lub? (“praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“to like, love, desire”), *lewb?-.

Verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

1. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
2. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

Etymology 3

Said by some to be from the idea that when one does a thing “for love”, that is for no monetary gain, the word “love” implies "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the French term l’œuf (“the egg”), due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted, though compare the use of duck (reputed to be short for duck's egg) for a zero score at cricket.

Noun

love (uncountable)

1. (racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.

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