love noun
ADJ. deep, great, overwhelming, passionate her deep love for him | genuine, pure, real, true | unconditional | abiding, eternal, undying He had an abiding love of the English countryside. You have my undying love. | hopeless, unrequited a sad tale of unrequited love | thwarted a play about thwarted love | mutual | free They were into free love and avoided commitment. | first I like most sports but tennis is my first love. | brotherly, maternal, parental, sisterly | courtly, platonic, romantic the cult of courtly love in twelfth-century Aquitaine | erotic, physical, sexual | heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian | redemptive | divine, human
VERB + LOVE feel, have She felt no love for him. He had a great love of life. | search for, seek | find At last she had found true love. | express, show | declare, profess They publicly declared their love for each other. | promise ‘You promised me love!’ he cried despairingly. | return He didn’t return her love. | share They share a love of music. | give sb, send (sb) Bob sends his love. | be in, fall in He fell in love with one of his students. | fall out of | make (= have sex) It was the first time they had made love. He wanted to make love to her.
LOVE + NOUN affair | life | letter | scene, song, story
PREP. for/out of ~ I did it for love! | in ~ We are very much in love. | ~ between the love between parent and child | ~ for He did not know how to express his love for her. | ~ of She had a great love of painting.
PHRASES an act of love, deeply/madly/passionately in love I was madly in love with her. | desperately/hopelessly in love, head over heels in love, love at first sight Do you believe in love at first sight? | the love of sb’s life She was the love of his life.
love verb
ADV. dearly, deeply, passionately, really, tenderly, very much He loved his wife dearly. | unconditionally He wanted to be unconditionally loved.
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Collocations for «love»Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word «love» in context. WordReference English Collocations © 2023 loveⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK. n
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- hot water
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- gift shop
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Collocations
Collocations with LOVE
Collocations
Collocations are used to express two or more words that are frequently used together in a single sentence or paragraph. It is often that when you substitute one of these words in a collocation with a comparable one, the resulting expression will sound weird, even though its meaning is technically the same. For example “do a favor” essentially means the same as “make a favor” but the second one sounds off.
Collocations can be used to express actions, emotions, and thoughts. Their use in casual conversation is both formal and informal; other varieties of English, such as business and professional English, have their own set of colloquial expressions.
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Here are Collocations with LOVE Examples;
- love life
- fall in love
- love affair
- true love
- love letter
- loved one
- love song
- first love
- young love
- love poem
love: translation
•Roman•I.•/Roman•
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ all-consuming, burning, deep, great, immense, intense, overwhelming, passionate, profound
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her deep love for him
▪ tender
▪ genuine, perfect, pure, real, sheer, sincere, true
▪ boundless, unconditional
▪ altruistic, selfless
▪ abiding, enduring, eternal, everlasting, lasting, lifelong, undying
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He had an abiding love of the natural world.
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You have my undying love.
▪ steadfast, unfailing
▪ new-found
▪ secret
▪ hopeless, unrequited
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a sad tale of unrequited love
▪ doomed
▪ forbidden
▪ lost
▪
Soul Survivors is a story of lost love.
▪ mutual, shared
▪ free
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They were into free love and avoided commitment.
▪ first
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I like most sports but tennis is my first love.
▪ brotherly, familial, fatherly, maternal, parental, paternal, sisterly
▪ puppy, teenage
▪ marital, married
▪
The poem is a celebration of married love.
▪ courtly, platonic, romantic
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the cult of courtly love in the 12th century
▪ erotic, physical, sexual
▪ obsessive
▪ heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, same-sex
▪ redemptive
▪ Christian, divine, human
▪ universal
VERB + LOVE
▪ feel, have
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She felt no love for him.
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He had a great love of life.
▪ experience, know
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He had never known true love until now.
▪ search for, seek
▪ discover, find
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At last she had found true love.
▪ rediscover, rekindle
▪ receive
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From John, she received the love she had never received from her father.
▪ earn
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She has earned the love and respect of many people.
▪ develop
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He developed a lifelong love of music.
▪ demonstrate, express, show
▪ prove
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He would do almost anything to prove his love for her.
▪ hide
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I couldn’t hide my love for her any longer.
▪ confess, declare, pledge, proclaim, profess
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They publicly declared their love for each other.
▪ deserve
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I don’t deserve his love.
▪ doubt
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Does she doubt my love for her?
▪ inspire, instil/instill
▪ cultivate, foster, nurture
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We want to foster a love of learning in all children.
▪ celebrate
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a party with family and friends to celebrate their love
▪ reciprocate, return
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He didn’t return her love.
▪ share
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They share a love of music.
▪ indulge
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His wealth enabled him to indulge his love of fast cars.
▪ pursue
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It gave me the opportunity to pursue my love of music.
▪ give sb, send (sb)
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Bob sends his love.
▪ lavish, pour
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They lavish love on Selah, their cat.
▪ be in, fall in
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He fell in love with one of his students.
▪ fall out of
▪ make (= have sex)
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It was the first time they had made love.
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He wanted to make love to her.
▪ consummate
LOVE + VERB
▪ bloom, blossom, grow
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Love blossomed between the two of them
▪ die, fade
▪ prevail
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Can true love prevail?
LOVE + NOUN
▪ affair
▪ triangle
▪ life
▪ interest, object
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She plays his love interest in the film.
▪ rival (esp.BrE)
▪ rat (BrE, informal)
▪ slave
▪ letter, note
▪ token
▪ ballad, poem, poetry, scene, song, story
▪ potion, spell
▪ nest
PREPOSITION
▪ for love, out of love
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I did it for love!
▪ in love
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We are very much in love.
▪ love between
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the love between parent and child
▪ love for
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He did not know how to express his love for her.
▪ love of
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She had a great love of painting.
PHRASES
▪ an act of love
▪ deeply in love, madly in love, passionately in love
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I was madly in love with her.
▪ desperately in love, head over heels in love, hopelessly in love
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They fell head over heels in love.
▪ love at first sight
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Do you believe in love at first sight?
▪ love conquers all
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In his music dramas, love conquers all.
▪ the love of sb’s life
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She was the love of his life.
•Roman•II.•/Roman•
verb
ADVERB
▪ dearly, deeply, passionately, really, very much
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He loved his wife dearly.
▪ absolutely, totally (informal, esp. AmE)
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I absolutely love your shoes!
▪ genuinely, really, truly
▪ simply
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She simply loved being involved.
▪ unconditionally
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He wanted to be unconditionally loved.
▪ secretly
▪ universally
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Flowers are universally loved.
▪ personally
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I personally love the song.
Love is used with these nouns as the object: ↑child, ↑country, ↑fashion, ↑father, ↑feeling, ↑film, ↑food, ↑job, ↑music, ↑work