{
    "term": "love",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a very strong feeling of liking and caring for somebody/something, especially a member of your family or a friend",
            "sensetop": "love for somebody/somethinglove of somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She has earned the love and respect of many people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a mother’s **unconditional love** for her children",
                    "contextForm": "love for somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "love of your country",
                    "contextForm": "love of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "From John, she received the love she had never received from her father."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He seems incapable of love."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They lavish love on Selah, their cat."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships", "Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["all-consuming", "burning", "deep"],
                "verb + love": ["feel", "have", "experience"],
                "love + verb": ["bloom", "blossom", "grow"],
                "love + noun": ["affair", "triangle", "life"],
                "preposition": ["for love", "out of love", "in love"],
                "phrases": ["an act of love", "deeply in love", "madly in love"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a strong feeling of romantic attraction for somebody",
            "sensetop": "in lovein love with somebodylove for somebody",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm sure you will find **true love**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're in love!",
                    "contextForm": "in love"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They're **madly in love**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has been in and out of love many times."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was in love with him.",
                    "contextForm": "in love with somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They **fell in love** with each other."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There wasn't anyone else in his life; he simply **fell out of love** with her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They finally expressed their love for each other.",
                    "contextForm": "love for somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was **love at first sight** *(= they were attracted to each other the first time they met)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is a story of **unrequited love** *(= love that is not returned)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "romantic/undying/passionate love"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **love song/story**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "At last he had found true love."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Does she doubt my love for her?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He did not know how to express his love for her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She felt no love for him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He didn't return her love."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I did it for love!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In his music dramas, love conquers all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Love blossomed between the two of them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They publicly declared their love for each other."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You have my undying love."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their love grew with the years."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["all-consuming", "burning", "deep"],
                "verb + love": ["feel", "have", "experience"],
                "love + verb": ["bloom", "blossom", "grow"],
                "love + noun": ["affair", "triangle", "life"],
                "preposition": ["for love", "out of love", "in love"],
                "phrases": ["an act of love", "deeply in love", "madly in love"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the strong feeling of pleasure that something gives you",
            "sensetop": "love of somethinglove for somethingin love with something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They shared a love of learning.",
                    "contextForm": "love of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "her love for her garden",
                    "contextForm": "love for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's in love with his work.",
                    "contextForm": "in love with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I **fell in love **with the house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She developed a lifelong love of music."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had a great love of life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had an abiding love of the English countryside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His wealth enabled him to indulge his love of fast cars."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["all-consuming", "burning", "deep"],
                "verb + love": ["feel", "have", "experience"],
                "love + verb": ["bloom", "blossom", "grow"],
                "love + noun": ["affair", "triangle", "life"],
                "preposition": ["for love", "out of love", "in love"],
                "phrases": ["an act of love", "deeply in love", "madly in love"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a person, a thing or an activity that you like very much",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Take care, my love."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was **the love of my life** *(= the person I loved most)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I like most sports but tennis is my **first love**."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["all-consuming", "burning", "deep"],
                "verb + love": ["feel", "have", "experience"],
                "love + verb": ["bloom", "blossom", "grow"],
                "love + noun": ["affair", "triangle", "life"],
                "preposition": ["for love", "out of love", "in love"],
                "phrases": ["an act of love", "deeply in love", "madly in love"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a word used as a friendly way of addressing somebody",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can I help you, love?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a score of zero (points or games)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "40–love!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She won the first set six-love/six games to love."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in some situations any type of behaviour is acceptable to get what you want",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "love that somebody, especially a child, shows towards somebody else in order to get something",
            "labels": "(British English, old-fashioned)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "without receiving payment or any other reward",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They're all volunteers, working for the love of it."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used when you are expressing anger and the fact that you are impatient",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "For the love of God, tell me what he said!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to send good wishes to somebody",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Give my love to Mary when you see her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Bob sends his love."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "loving somebody very much",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's fallen head over heels in love with his boss."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Writing the book was a labour of love."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used at the end of a letter to a friend or to somebody you love, followed by your name",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Lots of love, Jenny"
                },
                {
                    "text": "See you soon. Love, Steve."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "when you love somebody, you cannot see their faults",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to have sex",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was the first time they had made love."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you say you cannot do something for love nor money, you mean it is completely impossible to do it",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We couldn't find a taxi for love nor money."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "they do not like each other",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There's no love lost between her and her in-laws."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lʌv/",
                "audio": "lo/love/love__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lʌv/",
                "audio": "lo/love/love__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati ‘desires’, Latin libet ‘it is pleasing’, libido ‘desire’, also by the noun leave and lief."
}