Usually means: Deep, unconditional affection and connection.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. love: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Love, love, love: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. love: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. love: Collins English Dictionary
  5. love: Vocabulary.com
  6. LOve, Love, Love, Love, love: Wordnik
  7. love: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Love, love: Wiktionary
  9. love: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. love: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. love: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Love, love: Dictionary.com
  13. love (n.), love (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. love: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. L.O.V.E, L.O.V.E. (Ashlee Simpson song), LOVE (Cirque du Soleil), LOVE (Indianapolis), LOVE (album), LOVE (magazine), LOVE (sculpture), LOVE (video game), LOVE, (What Is) Love, Love (Aaron Carter EP), Love (Aaron Carter album), Love (Amen Dunes album), Love (Angela Carter novel), Love (Angels & Airwaves album), Love (Arashi album), Love (Ayumi Hamasaki EP), Love (Ayumi Hamasaki album), Love (Aztec Camera album), Love (Beatles album), Love (Bleach), Love (Boyz II Men album), Love (Can Make You Happy), Love (Carter novel), Love (Cirque du Soleil), Love (Cloud Cult album), Love (Cult album), Love (Destiny), Love (Disney song), Love (DramaGods album), Love (Edyta Bartosiewicz album), Love (Flipper album), Love (Foetus album), Love (Girl's Day album), Love (Indianapolis), Love (Inna song), Love (Is All We Need), Love (Japanese band), Love (John Lennon song), Love (Kendrick Lamar song), Love (Keyshia Cole song), Love (Lana Del Rey song), Love (Love album), Love (Masaki Suda album), Love (Matthew Sweet song), Love (Mika Nakashima album), Love (Morrison novel), Love (Musiq Soulchild song), Love (Rosemary Clooney album), Love (S.E.S. album), Love (TV Series), Love (TV series), Love (The Beatles album), Love (The Cult album), Love (The Juliana Theory album), Love (Toni Morrison novel), Love (band), Love (computer game), Love (disambiguation), Love (film), Love (footballer), Love (given name), Love (horse), Love (magazine), Love (movie), Love (religious views), Love (scientific views), Love (sculpture), Love (surname), Love, Love, .love: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Love: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. love: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. love: Rhymezone
  19. LOVE, Love: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. love: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Love: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. love: Free Dictionary
  23. Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. love: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. love: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. love: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. love: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  28. love: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. love: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. love: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. love: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. love: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  3. LOVE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. love: Idioms
  7. love: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  8. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  9. baby names list (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
  2. Love: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. love: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. love: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. love: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Love: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. L.O.V.E, L.O.V.E, LOV.E, LOVE, Love, Love, love: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Love: Tennis Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Love: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
noun:  (uncountable) Strong affection.
noun:  A profound and caring affection towards someone.
noun:  Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
noun:  A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
noun:  A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
noun:  (countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
noun:  (colloquial, Commonwealth) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
noun:  A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
noun:  (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
noun:  (euphemistic) Sexual activity.
noun:  An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
noun:  Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
noun:  (obsolete) A thin silk material.
noun:  A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
verb:  (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive) To need, thrive on.
verb:  (transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
verb:  (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive, sometimes ironic) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
verb:  (Internet) Synonym of heart (verb).
verb:  (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
noun:  (racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.
noun:  Nothing; no recompense.
noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A female given name.
noun:  Cupid, Eros, or another personification of love.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
noun:  (fandom slang) The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica Mars.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”). [(World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.]
verb:  Alternative form of lofe (“to praise, sell”) [(transitive, UK dialectal or obsolete) To praise; commend.]

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