Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word love. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in love.
Definitions and meaning of love
love
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /lʌv/, [ɫʌv]
(Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /lʊv/
Rhymes: -ʌv
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishlove, luve, from Old Englishlufu, from Proto-Germanic*lubō, from Proto-Indo-European*lewbʰ-(“love, care, desire”).
The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle Englishloven, lovien, from Old Englishlufian(“to love”), from the noun lufu(“love”), see above.
Eclipsed non-native Englishamour(“love”), borrowed from Frenchamour(“love”).
Noun
love (countable and uncountable, pluralloves)
(uncountable) Strong affection.
A profound and caring affection towards someone.
1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
2014, S. Hidden, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (→ISBN)
Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government:
The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is [...] the highest of all the Divine commands[.]
A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity (→ISBN):
For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?
(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion
Open the temple gates unto my love.
1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2
O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!
(colloquial, Commonwealth of Nations)A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
1997 March, "Faces of Today's Black Woman", in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:
But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."
(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge (→ISBN), page 3:
The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.
(euphemistic) Sexual activity.
1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, "Bells":
—What think you, my lord, of... love?
—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution (→ISBN):
Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.
Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
Alternative letter-case form of Love(“personification of love”).
c.1810,, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson):
At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; [...]
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours,[…]
Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
Synonyms
(darling, sweetheart):baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
(term of address):mate, lover, darling, sweetie, sweetheart; see also Thesaurus:lover
(sexual desire):aphrodisia, carnality; see also Thesaurus:lust
(sexual activity):coitus, sex, the beast with two backs; see also Thesaurus:copulation
love (third-person singular simple presentloves, present participleloving, simple past and past participleloved)
(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
2013 February 26, Pink and Nate Ruess, Just Give Me a Reason:
Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
(transitive) To need, thrive on.
(transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew: 22:37-38
You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
(transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
Conjugation
Synonyms
(have a strong affection for):adore, cherish; see also Thesaurus:love
(have sexual intercourse with):enjoy, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Antonyms
hate, despise
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See love/translations § Verb.
See also
charity
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishloven, lovien, from Old Englishlofian(“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”), from Proto-Germanic*lubōną(“to praise, vow”), from *lubą(“praise”), from Proto-Indo-European*lewbʰ-(“to like, love, desire”), *lewbʰ-.
Verb
love (third-person singular simple presentloves, present participleloving, simple past and past participleloved)
(transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
(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)
(racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life
The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.
Translations
References
love at OneLook Dictionary Search
love in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
love in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
levo, levo-, velo-, vole, voël
Czech
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈlɔvɛ/
Etymology
Borrowed from Romanilove.
Noun
lovef pl
(slang) money
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
See also prachy
Noun
lovem
vocative singular of lov
Further reading
love in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Danish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈlɔːvə/, [ˈlɔːʋə], [ˈlɔːʊ]
Etymology 1
From Middle Low Germanlōve, from Proto-Germanic*galaubô, cognate with GermanGlaube.
Noun
lovec
(obsolete) trust, faith
only in the phrase på tro og love(“solemnly”)
References
“love,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
From Old Norselofa, from Proto-Germanic*(ga)lubōną, cognate with Swedishlova(“to promise; to praise”), Germanloben(“to praise”), geloben(“to vow”), Dutchloven(“to praise”).