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A Writer's Dictionary:

not for love Definition


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love
verb loved, loving
    1a. To feel great affection for (especially a close relative, friend, etc);
      Thesaurus: adore, cherish, delight in, dote on, prize, adulate, idolize, worship, treasure; Antonym: dislike.
    1b. To feel great affection and sexual attraction for (especially a sexual partner, a person one is romantically involved with, etc).
    2a. To enjoy very much;
      Example: I love to boogie
    2b. To like very much.
      Example: I love chocolate biscuits
noun
    1. A feeling of great affection.
      Example: brotherly love
      Thesaurus: adoration, adulation, devotion, fondness, affection, attachment, delight; Antonym: hatred, aversion.
    2. A strong liking.
      Example: a love of the outdoors
    3. Sexual attraction.
    4. Relating or referring to love, romance, sexual relations, etc.
      Example: love letters
    5a. Often used as a term of address: to a person one loves;
      Example: my love
    (Brit)
    5b. colloq
      Often used as a term of address: to anyone regardless of affection.
    5. tennis.squash.whist.
      No score.
Idiom: fall in love with someone
    To develop feelings of love and sexual attraction for them.
Idiom: in love (in love with someone)
    Having strong feelings of affection and sexual attraction (for them).
Idiom: love at first sight
    Instant sexual attraction.
Idiom: make love to someone (make love with someone)
    To be sexually intimate with them, especially when this culminates in sexual intercourse.
      Thesaurus: copulate, sleep with, go to bed with, screw (slang).
    old use
    To woo.
Idiom: not for love or money
    Under no circumstances.
Idiom: no love lost between (two or more people)
    Mutual dislike.
      Example: Since the divorce, there's no love lost between them
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon lufu.



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