love

1. 1.

   have a great affection or liking for

   “I love French food”

   “She loves her boss and works hard for him”

   Antonymshate

   Narrowercare fordoteadore
2. 2.

   get pleasure from

   “I love cooking”

   Synonymsenjoy

   Broaderlike

   Narrowerget off
3. 3.

   be enamored or in love with

   “She loves her husband deeply”

   Narrowerromance
4. 4.

   have sexual intercourse with

   “This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”

   “Adam knew Eve”

   “Were you ever intimate with this man?”

   Synonymssleep togetherroll in the haymake outmake lovesleep withget laidhave sexknowdo itbe intimatehave intercourse

Other forms of love

plural

loves·

past tense

loved·

present participle

loving·

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.

Questions about love

What does love mean?

love means "a strong positive emotion of regard and affection". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in love?

love has 1 syllable: love. In IPA it is /ˈlʌv/.

What is another word for love?

Close synonyms include passion, beloved, dear, dearest, honey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of love?

The recorded antonyms are hate, hate.

Is love a common word?

love is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with love?

1 word rhymes with love. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.