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say it: LUHV-uhj
lovage is a noun meaning "herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds". It is pronounced /ˈlʌvədʒ/ — LUHV-uhj. It carries 2 recorded senses.
herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds
stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lovage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.