(n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
(n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
(n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
(n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
(n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God.
(n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.
(n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
(n.) A thin silk stuff.
(n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
(n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.
(n.) To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
(n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
(n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
(v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
(5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
(10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
(11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
(12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
(14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
(16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
(17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
(18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.
Lovelorn
Definition:
(a.) Forsaken by one's love.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
(2) Inglis said the campaign was much more integrated across a range of different media than last year's effort which featured lovelorn snowmen.
(3) Others favour the luxuriant sleaze of Baby Wants To Ride or 1989's gorgeous, lovelorn Tears .
(4) Among other legends, the lovelorn poet Sappho is said to have ended her life here.
(5) But then it's a quality that his fans, particularly women of a certain age who first came across him nearly 30 years ago as lovelorn Lloyd Dobler, the hero of Say Anything , will recognise instantly – a hang-dog odd-man-outness which accompanies expectations of a John Cusack movie to this day.
(6) Ben Whishaw could not be more opposite.” The emergence of actors like Whishaw, who played the lovelorn John Keats in Jane Campion’s Bright Star , Sebastian Flyte in the 2008 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited , and appeared in the BBC series London Spy , poses a dilemma for film-makers.
(7) "I've never felt quite like this," sings Dilla, like a lovelorn robot.
(8) Yet he appears not much older than lovelorn Sam, the precocious child in 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom.
(9) The band's most arresting tracks, for me, are the lovelorn ones, such as White Blank Page – and what effect will a happy marriage have on that?
(10) Here are some of the things we learned from this year’s awards: Drunk Ed Sheeran is more fun than sober Ed Sheeran As with when Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted the Brits, the reason for pairing meek and lovelorn acoustic troubadour Ed Sheeran with the fiery, unpredictable Ruby Rose was the hilarity of juxtaposition .
(11) Tracks is her third UK release in nine weeks: February saw her wreaking havoc as a brattish vampire in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, while earlier this month she all but destroyed a lovelorn Jesse Eisenberg in Richard Ayoade's The Double.
(12) But most fat women in media didn’t even get that far – most were lovelorn, vulgar comic relief, their sexuality spun as either a menace or a joke.
(13) In TMNT Arnett plays Vern Fenwick, hapless and lovelorn cameraman to intrepid city desk reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox), who barely notices his knock-kneed crush as they happen upon the titular subterranean superheroes.
(14) Despite its visual style, his first feature film, The Hunger (1982), which starred David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve as lovelorn vampires, failed to make much of an impression with critics.
(15) In principle, it's an amusingly odd choice to dress up as a reindeer, and depict its lovelorn life.
(16) It won't translate..." You're most famous for playing the lovelorn Molly in the BBC drama Sherlock .