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yearn
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /j??n/
- (General American) enPR: yûrn, IPA(key): /j?n/
- Homophone: yern
- Rhymes: -??(r)n
Etymology 1
The verb is derived from Middle English yernen, yern (“to express or feel desire; to desire, long or wish for; to lust after; to ask or demand for”) [and other forms], from Old English ?eornan (“to desire, yearn; to beg”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan (“to be eager for, desire”), from Proto-Germanic *girnijan? (“to desire, want”), from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) (from Proto-Indo-European *??er- (“to yearn for”)) + *-jan? (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Verb
yearn (third-person singular simple present yearns, present participle yearning, simple past and past participle yearned)
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
- (specifically) To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.
- (specifically) To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.
- (intransitive) Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.
- (intransitive, dated) To have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn.
- (transitive) Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.
- (transitive, archaic or poetic) To have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something).
- Synonym: (obsolete) earn
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone).
- Synonym: (obsolete) earn
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
yearn (plural yearns)
- A strong desire or longing; a yearning, a yen.
- 1917 August 12, "A YEARN FOR PEACE; Pan-Germanism Denounced" Sunday Times (Perth, WA) p.1
- 1979 Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
- Gibbs now said he wasn't going to pull any punches with Gary when he knew how jealous a man could get, so he also wanted to tell him that Phil Hansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.
- 2010 Frank Buchmann-Moller Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster (University of Michigan Press) ?ISBN p.57
- "After he had made a record date with us in 1935, I always had a yearn for Ben," he said years later.
- 2014 February 13, AFP, "Why internet adultery numbers are soaring" New Zealand Herald
- "My guess, however, is that it has because there are many people who have a yearn for sex outside their relationship but wouldn't have the slightest idea about how to do it or do it safely," Prof Schwartz added.
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably either:
- a variant of earn (“to curdle, as milk”) (though this word is attested later), from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnen (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or
- a back-formation from yearning (“(Scotland, archaic) rennet; calf (or other animal’s) stomach used to make rennet”).
Verb
yearn (third-person singular simple present yearns, present participle yearning, simple past and past participle yearned)
- (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive)
- Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
- Synonyms: (obsolete or regional) earn, run
- Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.
- Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive)
- To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
- To make (cheese) from curdled milk.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Aeryn, Arney, Neary, Neyra, Raney, Rayne, Yaren, aryne, rayne, renay, yarne
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love
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /l?v/, [??v]
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /l?v/
- Rhymes: -?v
Etymology 1
From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-Germanic *lub?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“love, care, desire”).
The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from the noun lufu (“love”), see above.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).
Noun
love (countable and uncountable, plural loves)
- (uncountable) Strong affection.
- A profound and caring affection towards someone.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
- 2014, S. Hidden, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (?ISBN)
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
- 1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government:
- The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is [...] the highest of all the Divine commands[.]
- 1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government:
- A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
- A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
- 2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity (?ISBN):
- For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?
- 2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity (?ISBN):
- A profound and caring affection towards someone.
- (countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion
- Open the temple gates unto my love.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2
- O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion
- (colloquial, Commonwealth of Nations) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
- A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
- 1997 March, "Faces of Today's Black Woman", in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:
- But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."
- 1997 March, "Faces of Today's Black Woman", in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:
- (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
- 2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge (?ISBN), page 3:
- The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.
- 2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge (?ISBN), page 3:
- (euphemistic) Sexual activity.
- 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, "Bells":
- —What think you, my lord, of... love?
- —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
- 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, "Bells":
- An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
- 2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution (?ISBN):
- Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.
- 2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution (?ISBN):
- Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
- Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
- c. 1810,, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson):
- At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; [...]
- c. 1810,, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson):
- (obsolete) A thin silk material.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […]
- Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […]
- A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
Synonyms
- (darling, sweetheart): baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
- (term of address): mate, lover, darling, sweetie, sweetheart; see also Thesaurus:lover
- (sexual desire): aphrodisia, carnality; see also Thesaurus:lust
- (sexual activity): coitus, sex, the beast with two backs; see also Thesaurus:copulation
- (instance of being in love): romance
Antonyms
- (strong affection): hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite
- (absence of love): indifference
Translations
See love/translations § Noun.
Verb
love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)
- (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
- I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
- 2013 February 26, Pink and Nate Ruess, Just Give Me a Reason:
- Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
- (transitive) To need, thrive on.
- (transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
- (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
- John 3:16
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- Matthew: 22:37-38
- 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.
- John 3:16
- (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (have a strong affection for): adore, cherish; see also Thesaurus:love
- (have sexual intercourse with): enjoy, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Antonyms
- hate, despise
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See love/translations § Verb.
See also
- charity
Etymology 2
From Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”), from Proto-Germanic *lub?n? (“to praise, vow”), from *lub? (“praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“to like, love, desire”), *lewb?-.
Verb
love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)
- (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
- (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
Etymology 3
Said by some to be from the idea that when one does a thing “for love”, that is for no monetary gain, the word “love” implies "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the French term l’œuf (“the egg”), due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted, though compare the use of duck (reputed to be short for duck's egg) for a zero score at cricket.
Noun
love (uncountable)
- (racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.
- So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
- 2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life
- The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.
- Nothing; no recompense.
- 1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child
- I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.
- 1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child
Translations
References
- love at OneLook Dictionary Search
- love in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- love in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- levo, levo-, velo-, vole, voël
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?v?/
Etymology
Borrowed from Romani love.
Noun
love f pl
- (slang) money
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- See also prachy
Noun
love m
- vocative singular of lov
Further reading
- love in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l??v?/, [?l????], [?l???]
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German l?ve, from Proto-Germanic *galaubô, cognate with German Glaube.
Noun
love c
- (obsolete) trust, faith
- only in the phrase på tro og love (“solemnly”)
References
- “love,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
From Old Norse lofa, from Proto-Germanic *(ga)lub?n?, cognate with Swedish lova (“to promise; to praise”), German loben (“to praise”), geloben (“to vow”), Dutch loven (“to praise”).
Verb
love (past tense lovede, past participle lovet)
- to promise
- (solemn) to praise
Inflection
References
- “love,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “love,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3
See See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
love c
- indefinite plural of lov
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
love
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of loven
Anagrams
- velo, voel
French
Verb
love
- inflection of lover:
- first-person /third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- vélo, vole, volé
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin lupa, feminine of lupus. Compare Venetian lova, French louve.
Pronunciation
Noun
love f (plural lovis)
- she-wolf
Related terms
- lôf
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lo?v?/
Verb
love
- to praise
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Inari Sami
Numeral
love
- ten
Middle Dutch
Noun
l?ve
- dative singular of lof
Middle English
Alternative forms
- luve, lufæ, lufe
Etymology
From Old English lufu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?luv(?)/
Noun
love (plural loves)
- love
Descendants
- English: love
- Scots: luve, lufe
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse lofa.
Verb
love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past and past participle lova or lovet, present participle lovende)
- to praise
Verb
love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past lova or lovet or lovte or lovde, past participle lova or lovet or lovt or lovd, present participle lovende)
- to promise
- (as an adjective) det lovede land - the Promised Land
Related terms
- løfte
References
- “love” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
love (present tense lovar or lover, past tense lova or lovde, past participle lova or lovt or lovd, present participle lovande, imperative lov)
- Alternative form of lova
Noun
love m (definite singular loven, indefinite plural lovar, definite plural lovane)
- Alternative form of lóve
Anagrams
- vole
Romani
Noun
love
- plural of lovo
- money
Descendants
- ? French: lové
- ? Hungarian: lóvé
- ? Romanian: lovea
- ? Russian: ????? (lav??)
- ? Scots: lowie
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ?????
- Latin: lóva
- ? Slovak: lóve
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
love (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- vocative singular of lov
Verb
love (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present of loviti
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