Word Type
Love can be a noun or a verb.
love used as a noun:
- An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
"A mother’s love is not easily shaken." - A deep or abiding liking for something.
"My love of cricket knows no bounds." - A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
"Your love is the most important thing in my life." - The object of one's romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart
"I met my love by the gasworks wall." - A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
"Hello, love, how can I help you?" - zero, no score.
"So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
love used as a verb:
- To have a strong affection for.
"I love my spouse." - To need, thrive on.
"Mold loves moist, dark places." - To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
"I love walking barefoot on wet grass." - To care deeply about.
""You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Matt. 22:37-38)" - To lust for.
- To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
"I wish I could love her all night long."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is love?
- Noun usage: A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
- Noun usage: My love of cricket knows no bounds.
- Noun usage: Your love is the most important thing in my life.
- Noun usage: I met my love by the gasworks wall.
- Noun usage: Hello, love, how can I help you?
- Noun usage: So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
- Verb usage: I love my spouse.
- Verb usage: I love you.
- Verb usage: Mold loves moist, dark places.
- Verb usage: I love walking barefoot on wet grass.
- Verb usage: I'd love to join the team.
- Verb usage: "You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Matt. 22:37-38)
- Verb usage: I wish I could love her all night long.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of love are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of love, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).