loved

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love

(lŭv)

1. A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.

2. A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.

a. A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.

b. A feeling of kindness or concern by God or a god toward humans.

c. often Love Christianity Charity.

a. Sexual desire or activity: the pleasures of love; a night of love.

b. An instance of being in love: Teenage loves can be as fleeting as they are intense.

a. A person for whom one has strong feelings of affection: She met her new love at the restaurant.

b. Used as a term of endearment for such a person.

6. An intense emotional attachment to something, as to a pet or treasured object.

7. An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.

a. A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language; love for the game of golf.

b. The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love.

9. Love Mythology Eros or Cupid.

10. Sports A score of zero, as in tennis.

v. loved, lov·ing, loves

v.tr.

1. To feel love for (a person): We love our parents. I love my friends.

2. To feel sexual love for (a person).

a. To feel devotion to (God or a god).

b. To feel or show kindness or concern to (a person). Used of God or a god.

4. To have an intense emotional attachment to: loves his house.

a. To embrace or caress: They were loving each other on the sofa.

b. To have sexual intercourse with.

6. To like or desire enthusiastically: loves swimming.

7. To thrive on; need: The cactus loves hot, dry air.

v.intr.

To feel love or sexual love for another.

Idioms:

for love

Out of compassion; with no thought for a reward: She volunteers at the hospital for love.

for love or money

Under any circumstances. Usually used in negative sentences: I would not do that for love or money.

for the love of

For the sake of; in consideration for: did it all for the love of praise.

in love

1. Deeply or passionately enamored: a young couple in love.

2. Highly or immoderately fond: in love with Japanese painting; in love with the sound of her own voice.

no love lost

No affection; animosity: There's no love lost between them.

[Middle English, from Old English lufu; see leubh- in Indo-European roots.]

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Adj.

loved - held dear; "his loved companion of many years"

wanted - desired or wished for or sought; "couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy"; "a wanted criminal"; "a wanted poster"

unloved - not loved

loved

adjective

Regarded with much love and tenderness:

beloved, darling, dear, precious.

Translations

αγαπιέμαι

References in classic literature ?

For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.

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But one must know how to be a sponge, if one would be loved by overflowing hearts.

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And among the hills, on their favorite knoll, Martin and Ruth sat side by side, their heads bent over the same pages, he reading aloud from the love-sonnets of the woman who had loved Browning as it is given to few men to be loved.

She loved the man whose arms were around her and whose lips were pressed to hers.

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An ugly, good-natured man, as he considered himself, might, he supposed, be liked as a friend; but to be loved with such a love as that with which he loved Kitty, one would need to be a handsome and, still more, a distinguished man.

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She died happy when she saw that I loved her, and that this new love was due neither to pity nor to the ties that bound us together.

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"But not love which loves for something, for some quality, for some purpose, or for some reason, but the love which I- while dying- first experienced when I saw my enemy and yet loved him.

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Nobody ever loved as he loves, and so, of course, the rest of the world's experience can be no guide in his case.

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From a group of Elves, whose rose-wreathed wands showed the flower they loved, came one bearing a tiny urn, and, answering the Queen, she said,--

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In the earliest stages of love the services are small that we are privileged to do for the loved one.

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It was thus he had succeeded in approaching several times the beautiful and proud Anne of Austria, and in making himself loved by dazzling her.

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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.