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Synonyms for make love
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : luhv |
| Phonetic Transcription : lʌv |
Top 10 synonyms for make love
Définition of make love
Origin :- Old English lufu "love, affection, friendliness," from Proto-Germanic *lubo (cf. Old High German liubi "joy," German Liebe "love;" Old Norse, Old Frisian, Dutch lof; German Lob "praise;" Old Saxon liof, Old Frisian liaf, Dutch lief, Old High German liob, German lieb, Gothic liufs "dear, beloved").
- The Germanic words are from PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (cf. Latin lubet, later libet "pleases;" Sanskrit lubhyati "desires;" Old Church Slavonic l'ubu "dear, beloved;" Lithuanian liaupse "song of praise").
- "Even now," she thought, "almost no one remembers Esteban and Pepita but myself. Camilla alone remembers her Uncle Pio and her son; this woman, her mother. But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." [Thornton Wilder, "Bridge of San Luis Rey," 1927]
- Meaning "a beloved person" is from early 13c. The sense "no score" (in tennis, etc.) is 1742, from the notion of "playing for love," i.e. "for nothing" (1670s). Phrase for love or money "for anything" is attested from 1580s. Love seat is from 1904. Love-letter is attested from mid-13c.; love-song from early 14c. To fall in love is attested from early 15c. To be in love with (someone) is from c.1500. To make love is from 1570s in the sense "pay amorous attention to;" as a euphemism for "have sex," it is attested from c.1950. Love life "one's collective amorous activities" is from 1919, originally a term in psychological jargon. Love affair is from 1590s. The phrase no love lost (between two people) is ambiguous and was used 17c. in reference to two who love each other well (c.1640) as well as two who have no love for each other (1620s).
- verb have sex
- I am afraid you will make love to her, which is a very different thing.
- Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
- You cannot fight every day any more than you can make love every day.
- Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton
- Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation.
- Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham
- Are you always obliged to have—a girl beside you when you make love to her?
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- No, dear Leah, they that can make love every day are very scarce.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- I am very bad, but I'm just not bad enough to make love to her.
- Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
- They sat down together, and he began to caress and to make love to her.
- Extract from : « The Indian Fairy Book » by Cornelius Mathews
- It was perfectly clear that he was beginning to make love to her.
- Extract from : « Adam Johnstone's Son » by F. Marion Crawford
- He would be able to make love to Anna differently hereafter.
- Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
- He did so, in the morning, and once more tried to make love to me.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Bravery » by Burt L. Standish
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