What is the name meaning of LOVE. Phrases containing LOVE
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LOVE
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : possibly a nickname for a philanderer, from Middle English love(n) ‘to love’ + well, or alternatively a variant of Lovell, altered through folk etymology.
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English
English : variant spelling of Lovell.
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English
English : from the Middle English female personal name Loveday, Old English Lēofdæg, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + dæg ‘day’.English : nickname for someone who had some particular association with a ‘loveday’. According to medieval custom this was a day set aside for the reconciliation of enemies and amicable settlement of disputes.
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English
English : habitational name from Loveland in Devon, possibly named with the Old English personal name Lufa + Old English land ‘cultivated land’, ‘estate’.Probably an Americanized spelling of Norwegian Løvland, Lauvland (see Lofland).
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Loverun, Old English Lēofrūn, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’ + rūn ‘rune’.
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, from Old English lufu, LOVE means "affection, friendliness, love." Compare with masculine Love.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name derived from the Old English female personal name Lufu ‘love’, or the masculine equivalent Lufa. Compare Leaf 2.English and Scottish : nickname from Anglo-Norman French lo(u)ve ‘female wolf’ (a feminine form of lou). This nickname was fairly commonly used for men, in an approving sense. No doubt it was reinforced by crossing with post-Conquest survivals of the masculine version of 1.Scottish : see McKinnon.Dutch (de Love) : respelling and reinterpretation of Delhove, a habitational name from Hove and L’Hoves in Hainault, for example.
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English
English : nickname for an amiable person, also perhaps sometimes given in an ironical sense, from Middle English luvelich, loveli (Old English luflic). During the main period of surname formation the word was used in an active sense, ‘loving’, ‘kind’, ‘affectionate’, as well as the passive ‘lovable’, ‘worthy of love’. The meaning ‘attractive’, ‘beautiful’ is not clearly attested before the 14th century, and remained rare throughout the Middle Ages.New England Americanized form of French Lavallée (see Lavallee) or a similar name.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English love(n), luve(n) ‘to love’ + lavedi ‘lady’. Reaney describes this as an obvious nickname for a philanderer; but perhaps it denoted a man who loved a woman above his social status, given the connotation of high status carried by the word lavedi.
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English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : from Anglo-Norman French lo(u)vet, a nickname meaning ‘wolf cub’, ‘young wolf’ (see Love, Low).Scottish : variant of Lovat, a habitational name for a sept of the Frasers from Lovat near Beauly in Inverness-shire, so named from Gaelic lobh ‘rot’, ‘putrefy’ + the locative suffix -aid.
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English
English : presumably a variant of Lovell, or possibly a habitational name from Lovehall in Tayside.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English love(n), luve(n) ‘to love’ (Old English lufian) + Middle English joie ‘joy’ (Old French joie).
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from a variant spelling of English Lowell, LOVELL means "little wolf."
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English (Berkshire)
English (Berkshire) : habitational name from an unidentified place, possibly named with the Old English personal name Lufa (see Love 1) + Old English grÄf ‘grove’, ‘thicket’.
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English
English : variant of Loveless. The spelling is apparently the result of folk etymology, which understood the word as a nickname for a dandy fond of lace. The modern sense of this word is, however, not attested until the 16th century and at the time of surname formation it meant only ‘cord’ or ‘shoelace’.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English lovere ‘lover’, ‘sweetheart’.
Male
Swedish
Swedish name derived from Middle Latin Ludovicus, LOVE means "famous warrior." Compare with feminine Love.
Female
Cornish
, love.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Lovell, LOVEL means "little wolf."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English loveles ‘loveless’, ‘without love’, probably in the sense ‘fancy free’.English : some early examples, such as Richard Lovelas (Kent 1344), may have as their second element Middle English las(se) ‘girl’, ‘maiden’.
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n.
The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage.
adv.
In manner to excite love; amiably.
adv.
In a manner to please, or to excite love.
a.
Lovely.
a.
Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love.
n.
The state of being love-sick.
n.
One who loves the truth.
n.
One who deals in affairs of love.
n.
Alt. of Lovery
a.
Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid.
superl.
Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
n.
A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.
n.
One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.
adv.
As lovers do.
a.
Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.
superl.
Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
a.
Not attracting love; unattractive.
n.
The state or quality of being lovely.
superl.
Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
a.
Forsaken by one's love.