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By Chances are Date: 2002 Dec 16 Comment on this Work [[2002.12.16.02.15.31458]] |
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love n. 1. warm liking or affection for a person or thing. 2. sexual passion; sexual relations. 3. a beloved one, a sweet-heart (often a form of address); (colloq.) a person of whom one is fond. 4. affectionate greetings. 5. (often Love) a representation of Cupid. 6. (in games) no score, nil. -v.t./i. 1. to feel love for. 2. to like greatly, to delight in. 3. to be inclined, especially as a habit. -for love, because of affection; without receiving payment. in love (with), feeling (esp. sexual) love (for). love-affair n. a romantic or sexual relationship between two people who are in love. love-bird n. a budgerigar. love-child n. an illegitimate child. love creeper, a twining plant (Comesperma volubile) with bluish flowers. love game, a game in which the loser makes no score. make love, to have sexual intercourse; to pay amorous attentions. loveless adj. unloving or unloved or both [f. LOVE + -LESS] lovelorn adj. pining from unrequited love. lovely adj. exquisitely beautiful; (colloq.) pleasing, delightful. -loveliness n. [OE (as love)] lover n. 1. a person in love with another; a person having sexual relations with another; (in pl.) a pair in love. 2. on who likes or enjoys something. [f. LOVE] lovesick adj. languishing with love lovey-dovey adj. (colloq) fondly affectionate and sentimental. [f. LOVE] loving adj. feeling or showing love. -loving-cup n. a large drinking-vessel with two or more handles, passed from hand to hand at a banquet etc. so that each person may drink from its contents. -lovingly adv. [as LOVE] From the Australian Reference Dictionary, based on the Oxford Reference Dictionary |