love

/lʌv/

US pronunciation

American sound/lʌv/

love

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short u vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> love

Full entry

love / lʌv / n

၁။ [U] ချစ်ခြင်း။ မေတ္တာ။ သံယောဇဉ်။
a mother’s love for her children ❍ love of one’s country ❍ He shows little love towards her. ❍ Give my love to your sister. Compare HATE
၂။ [U] အချစ်။ ချစ်ခြင်း။ မေတ္တာ။ a love song/story ❍ It was love at first sight (ie They were attracted to each other the first time they met). ❍ Their love has cooled.
၃။ [U, sing] ခုံမင်နှစ်သက်ခြင်း။ a love of learning / adventure / nature.
၄။ [C] (က) အချစ်။ ချစ်သူ။ Take care, my love. ❍ She was the love of my life.
(ခ) စွဲလမ်းခြင်း။ ကြိုက်ခြင်း။ She’s fond of all sports, but tennis is her first/greatest love.
၅။ [C] (infml esp Brit ) (ဖော်ရွေသည့် သဘောဖြင့် သုံးသောအာလုပ်စကား)။ Mind your head, love!
၆။ [U] (တင်းနစ်ပွဲတွင်) သုည။ She won the first set six-love/six games to love.
v
၁။ ချစ်သည်။ love one’s parents/country/wife.
၂။ ခုံမင်သည်။ နှစ်သက်သည်။ ဝါသနာပါသည်။ ဝမ်းသာသည်။ သဘောကျသည်။ She’s always loved horses. ❍ Children love to play / love playing. ❍ We’d love you to come to dinner. ❍ I love him reading to me in bed.
❏ be in love (with sb) [IDM ] မေတ္တာရှိနေသည်။ I’m deeply/madly in love with her.
❏ be in love with sth [IDM ] ကြိုက်သည်။ သဘောကျသည်။ He’s in love with the sound of his own voice (ie talks too much).
❏ fall in love (with sb/sth) [IDM ] သဘောတွေ့သည်။ မနောခွေ့သည်။ fall in love with Venice.
❏ (just) for love / for the love of sth [IDM ] စေတနာ့ ဝန်ထမ်းသက်သက်။ They’re all volunteers, doing it just for the love of the thing.
❏ for the love of God, etc [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ (တိုက်တွန်း ပြောဆိုသည့်စကား)။ For the love of God let’s get out of here!
၂။ (အံ့ဩခြင်း၊ စိတ်ဆိုးခြင်းဖော်ပြသော စကား)။
❏ love affair n တွဲခုတ်ခြင်း။ အချစ်ဇာတ်ခင်းခြင်း။
❏ love-child n (pl -children ) (euph ) တရားဝင် လက်မထပ်ဘဲ ရရှိသည့် ကလေး။
❏ love-hate relationship n မုန်း-ချစ်သံယောဇဉ်။
❏ loveless adj မေတ္တာခေါင်းပါးသော။ a loveless marriage.
❏ love-letter n ရည်းစားစာ။
❏ love-match n မေတ္တာစစ်ဖြင့် လက်ထပ်ခြင်း။
❏ make love (to sb) [IDM ] သံဝါသပြုသည်။ ကိုယ်လက် နှီးနှောသည်။ We made love (to each other).
❏ not for love or money [IDM ] လုံးဝ။ မည်သည့် နည်းနှင့်မျှ။ We couldn’t find a hotel room for love or money.
❏ there’s little/no love lost between A and B [IDM ] ရှားစောင်းစေးနှင့် မျက်ချေး။ There’s never been much love lost between her and her sister.

More examples

I love you.
We love each other, and we’re going to get married.
She loved her children with all her heart.
[love someone dearly] : I’ve known Jack for years and I love him dearly.
She went back to the country she loved.
Those who love money will never find happiness.
Lucy loves chocolate.
We went to Corfu last year and loved it.
I’ve been retired for a year now and I’m loving every minute of it.
I would love a glass of wine (=would like one very much).
[love to do something] : I would love to see them again.
[love doing something] : Ben loves playing the piano.
[love nothing more/better than] : I love nothing better than having a really good meal with a few close friends.

Synonyms

feel affection for, adore, worship, be in love with, be devoted to, care for, find irresistible, be keen on, be fond of, Juliet, Romeo, admire, admirer, adoration, adulate, adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amorousness, amour, angel, appreciate, appreciation, ardency, ardor, attachment, be attached to, be attracted to, be captivated by, be crazy about, be enamored of, be enchanted by, be fascinated with, be partial to, beau, beloved, boyfriend, canonize, caress, case, cherish, cherishing, choose, clasp, cling, cosset, court, courter, crush, cuddle, darling, dear, dear one, dearest, deify, delight, delight in, devotedness, devotion, dote on, draw close, embrace, emotion, enchantment, enjoy, enjoyment, esteem, exalt, fall for, fancy, feel, feeling, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondle, fondness, friendship, girlfriend, glorify, go for, gone on, hankering, have a thing about, have a weakness for, have affection for, have it bad, hold, hold dear, hold high, honey, hug, idolatry, idolize, inamorata, inamorato, inclination, infatuation, involvement, kiss, lick, like, long for, look tenderly, lose one's heart to, loved one, lover, lust, mad for, make love, neck, paramour, partiality, passion, pet, piety, prefer, press, prize, put on pedestal, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, shine, soft spot, soothe, spark, stroke, suitor, swain, sweet, sweetheart, take into one's arms, taste, tenderness, think the world of, thrive with, treasure, truelove, tryst, valentine, venerate, weakness, wild for, woo, yearning, zeal

Antonyms

abstain, animosity, apathy, castigate, condemn, coolness, criticize, debase, degrade, despise, disbelieve, dislike, disloyalty, enemy, enmity, foe, girlfriend, hate, hatred, humiliate, ignore, ill will, indifference, let go, lower, misery, mock, neglect, not care, push away, release, scorn, sorrow, treachery, unhappiness