love

1 عمومی:: معشوقه‌، مهر، دوست‌ داشتن‌، عشق‌، عشق‌ داشتن‌، محبت‌

شبکه مترجمین ایران

2 :: محبت

واژگان شبکه مترجمین ایران

1 general:: love to like someone very much and care a lot about them – used about people in your family or someone who you are sexually attracted to: • I love my wife and children very much. • Have you ever said ‘I love you’ and not really meant it? adore to love and admire someone very much: • When she was a child she adored her father. be in love (with somebody) to feel that you love someone and want to have a romantic relationship with them: • We were both young and very much in love. • Karen was in love with a man who was much older than her. be infatuated with somebody to love someone a lot and keep thinking about them, in a way that seems silly because you do not know them very well: • He became infatuated with a woman he met at a conference. have a crush on somebody to love and be sexually attracted to someone you are not having a relationship with, usually someone older: • Jane had a crush on the German teacher. be crazy about somebody informal to love someone very much – used for emphasis: • She’s crazy about you. be devoted to somebody to love someone very much and give them a lot of attention: • He was devoted to his wife and his children. dote on somebody written to love someone very much, especially a much younger family member, and behave very kindly to them: • He dotes on his grandchildren., love noun [ uncountable ] a feeling of liking someone very much and caring a lot about them – used about people in your family, or someone you feel sexually attracted to: • All children need love, attention, and encouragement. • We don’t need words to express our love for each other. affection noun [ uncountable ] a gentle feeling of love which makes you want to be kind to someone and show them that you love them – used especially about friends and members of your family: • My mother never showed us us any affection. • Alison and I had been at school together, and I felt great affection for her. devotion noun [ uncountable ] very strong love for someone in which you want to give them a lot of attention and look after them – used especially about strong feelings of love for your wife, husband, children etc: • His recovery is largely due to the devotion of his wife and family passion noun [ uncountable ] a strong and exciting feeling of love for someone you are extremely sexually attracted to: • He loved her still, with just the same passion as he always had. • There was no passion in their relationship. infatuation noun [ uncountable and countable ] a strong feeling of love for someone, in which you cannot stop thinking about them, and which seems silly because you do not know them very well: • She hoped that his ridiculous infatuation would soon wear off. • His infatuation with Diane seemed to be growing. • a childhood infatuation romance noun [ uncountable ] the feeling of loving someone and the nice things you do to show this – used about someone you are sexually attracted to: • The romance had gone out of their relationship. • In the UK, one in ten people have found romance over the Internet. crush noun [ countable ] a very strong feeling of love and sexual attraction for someone such as a teacher or a famous person, especially when there is no chance of you having a relationship with that person because you are much younger than them: • She had a teenage crush on one of her teachers. • I had a big crush on Tom Cruise when I was growing up. • a schoolgirl crush

Longman-Thesaurus

2 general::   verb ADV. dearly, deeply, passionately, really, tenderly, very much He loved his wife dearly. | unconditionally He wanted to be unconditionally loved.,   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.

Oxford Collocations Dictionary

3 general:: noun adoration: The young couple were in love. verb cherished: He loved his wife with all his soul. verb thrives on: Cactus loves hot, dry air.

Simple Definitions

4 general:: love verbs be in love • Are you in love with her? fall in love (= start being in love ) • I fell in love with her the minute I saw her. find love (= meet someone to love ) • I never thought I would find love. return sb’s love (= love someone who loves you ) • Estella does not return Pip’s love. phrases love at first sight (= when you love someone as soon as you meet them ) • For Marion and Ron it was love at first sight. very much in love • They were obviously very much in love. madly/deeply in love (= very much in love ) • I married Dan because I was madly in love. head over heels in love (= very much in love ) • The two of them fell head over heels in love. love is blind (= used to say that people do not notice the faults of the person they love ) • Love is blind, I guess. How else could he stand to be with her? adjectives true love (= real love ) • She felt that she had finally found true love. real love • You could see real love in their eyes. romantic love • Romantic love was not always the reason for marriage. sexual love • Venus was the Roman goddess of sexual love. unrequited love (= love for someone who does not love you ) • She had a secret, unrequited love for Harrison. undying love (= love that does not stop ) • She and I swore undying love. passionate love • He wrote about his passionate love for her. love + NOUN a love song/story • a tragic love story a love letter • She found a love letter from another woman in his wallet.

transnet.ir

5 general:: In addition to the idioms beginning with LOVE, Also see ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR; COURSE OF TRUE LOVE; FALL IN LOVE; FOR THE LOVE OF; LABOR OF LOVE; MAKE LOVE; MISERY LOVES COMPANY; NO LOVE LOST; NOT FOR LOVE OR MONEY; PUPPY LOVE; SOMEBODY UP THERE LOVES ME.

American Heritage Idioms