What is "love"

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Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loved (l[u^]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Loving.] [AS. lufian. [root]124. See Love, n.]

1. To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.

   Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
   --Matt. xxii. 37.

   Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.
   --Matt. xxii. 39.

2. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.

3. To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.

   Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved.
   --Cowley.

Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. See Lief.]

1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

   Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own.
   --Keble.

2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

   He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored.
   --Milton.

3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

   Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul.
   --Shak.

4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.

   Love, and health to all.
   --Shak.

   Smit with the love of sacred song.
   --Milton.

   The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
   --Fenton.

5. Due gratitude and reverence to God.

   Keep yourselves in the love of God.
   --Jude 21.

6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading. ``Trust me, love.''
   --Dryden.

   Open the temple gates unto my love.
   --Spenser.

7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

   Such was his form as painters, when they show Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow.
   --Dryden.

   Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
   --Shak.

8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.]
   --Boyle.

9. (Bot.) A climbing species of C lematis ( Clematis Vitalba).

10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.

    He won the match by three sets to love.
    --The Field.

11. Sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism. Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in most of which the meaning is very obvious; as, love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked, love-taught, etc. A labor of love, a labor undertaken on account of regard for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself, without expectation of reward. Free love, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See Free love. Free lover, one who avows or practices free love. In love, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love. Love apple (Bot.), the tomato. Love bird (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small, short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus Agapornis, and allied genera. They are mostly from Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are celebrated for the affection which they show for their mates. Love broker, a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak. Love charm, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton. Love child. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen. Love day, a day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. --Chaucer. Love drink, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer. Love favor, something given to be worn in token of love. Love feast, a religious festival, held quarterly by some religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists, in imitation of the agap[ae] of the early Christians. Love feat, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak. Love game, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished person or party does not score a point. Love grass. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus Eragrostis. Love-in-a-mist. (Bot.)

    1. An herb of the Buttercup family ( Nigella Damascena) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts.

    2. The West Indian Passiflora f[oe]tida, which has similar bracts.

       Love-in-idleness (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy.

       A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
       --Shak.

       Love juice, juice of a plant supposed to produce love.
       --Shak.

       Love knot, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection.
       --Milman.

       Love lass, a sweetheart.

       Love letter, a letter of courtship.
       --Shak.

       Love-lies-bleeding (Bot.), a species of amaranth ( Amarantus melancholicus).

       Love match, a marriage brought about by love alone.

       Love potion, a compounded draught intended to excite love, or venereal desire.

       Love rites, sexual intercourse.
       --Pope

       Love scene, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the stage.

       Love suit, courtship.
       --Shak.

       Of all loves, for the sake of all love; by all means. [Obs.] ``Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again.''
       --Holinshed.

       The god of love, or The Love god, Cupid.

       To make love, to engage in sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism.

       To make love to, to express affection for; to woo. ``If you will marry, make your loves to me.''
       --Shak.

       To play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes. ``A game at piquet for love.''
       --Lamb.

       Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight.

Love \Love\, v. i. To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

Old English lufu "love, affection, friendliness," from Proto-Germanic *lubo (cognates: 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").\n

\nThe Germanic words are from PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (cognates: Latin lubet, later libet "pleases;" Sanskrit lubhyati "desires;" Old Church Slavonic l'ubu "dear, beloved;" Lithuanian liaupse "song of praise").\n\n"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]

\nMeaning "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).

Old English lufian "to love, cherish, show love to; delight in, approve," from Proto-Germanic *lubojan (cognates: Old High German lubon, German lieben), from root of love (n.). Related: Loved; loving. Adjective Love-hate "ambivalent" is from 1937, originally a term in psychological jargon.

Etymology 1 n. 1 (label en uncountable) Strong affection. 2 # An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person. vb. 1 (context usually transitive sometimes intransitive English) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). 2 (context transitive English) To need, thrive on. 3 (context transitive colloquial English) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of ''like''. 4 (context usually transitive sometimes intransitive English) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something). Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete or UK dialectal English) To praise; commend. 2 (context transitive obsolete or UK dialectal English) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on. Etymology 3

n. (context racquet sports English) zero, no score.

1. n. a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love" [ant: hate]

2. any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love" or "he has a passion for cock fighting"; [syn: passion]

3. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment [syn: beloved, dear, dearest, loved one, honey]

4. a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"

5. a score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love"

6. sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life" [syn: sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love life]

1. v. have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him" [ant: hate]

2. get pleasure from; "I love cooking" [syn: enjoy]

3. be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply"

4. have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: roll in the hay, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]

Love is a Foetus album released on CD by Ectopic Ents/ Birdman Records in 2005. Initial copies include a DVD disc with additional content. It features a dramatic shift in tone and style compared to previous Foetus releases, being more atmospheric and emotional in tone.

Love is Ectopic Ents #ECT ENTS 027.

Love the remake of Telugu blockbuster Prema starring Venkatesh and Revathi. It could not repeat the success of the original and ended up as an average grosser. The makers changed the tragic climax from the original film to one with a happy ending.

Love is the eponymous debut album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Love.

Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment.

Love or Loved may also refer to:

Love (styled L♥VE on the front cover) is a record album featuring the cast of Sesame Street. It was released in 1980.

Lóve is a 2011 Slovak-language film directed by Jakub Kroner, starring Michal Nemtuda and Kristína Svarinská, alongside Jakub Gogál. The action- romantic drama was released on October 13, 2011, while distributed by Continental Film in Slovakia, and Falcon in the Czech Republic.

Although the plot revolves around love determination, the original title refers to "money" instead, which serve as instrumental, quoting a term commonly used in the region amongs gypsies - "lóve". In English therefore, "Falling in Money", "Love Deal" or "Dirty Love", could be used as apt equivalents for the title.

Despite the mixed reviews upon its theatrical release, the work has been ranked amongs the highest grossing films in the Slovak-cinema era, placing at number three as of November 2014.

Love is an American rock group that was most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were originally led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee who wrote most of the songs, although some of their best known songs were written by Bryan MacLean. One of the first racially diverse American bands, they have been labelled as a psychedelic rock, folk rock and psychedelic pop band, combining elements and influences from folk, blues, jazz, flamenco and baroque pop.

While finding only modest success on the music charts, Love would come to be praised by critics as one of the finest and most important American rock groups of their era. Their third album Forever Changes (1967) is generally regarded as their masterpiece.

Love is the second album by English rock band The Cult, released in 1985 on Beggars Banquet Records. The record has been released in nearly 30 countries worldwide, and sold an estimated 2.5 million copies. It gave The Cult commercial success in the UK and abroad. Love was recorded at Jacob's Studios in Farnham, Surrey, in July and August 1985.

Many European CD pressings, as well as Canadian and Australian pressings, include two bonus tracks: "Little Face" as track four, and "Judith" as track eleven. Various other foreign pressings have several other bonus tracks. For unknown reasons, the Korean vinyl and cassette tape editions omitted the songs "Big Neon Glitter" and " Revolution". Also inexplicably, in the Philippines a considerably shorter version of the song "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" was used; it lasts only 5:18, omitting most of the guitar solos in the second half of the song.

In 2000, the album was remastered and reissued on CD, with only the ten original songs and different artwork. "Big Neon Glitter" and "Hollow Man" are alternately listed with and without the article "The" in their title, respectively.

In 2003, the record was issued on CD in Russia, Belarus and Lithuania, formerly being available only as a bootleg LP in the Soviet Union. These 2003 Eastern European releases came with the bonus tracks "Faith Healer" and "Edie (Ciao Baby)" (acoustic) as tracks 13 and 14, and the word acoustic is misspelled as ""; the pressings also use a different font for the lettering. There is also an Indonesian cassette tape version which rearranges the track listing, and includes "Dreamtime" and "Bad Medicine Waltz", from the previous Cult record Dreamtime.

To coincide with the band's Love Live Tour in August 2009, the band released two different editions of the album:

Version one is the "Expanded Edition", a 2-CD set consisting of the album on one disc as well as extended versions of album cuts, remixes, and b-sides on the second disc. This set was released on August 18, 2009 in the USA/Canada and September 21 in Europe.

Version two is called the "Omnibus Edition" which features the first two discs from the "Expanded Edition" plus two more discs. Disc three features extremely rare demos from the Love album presented for the first time, and disc four features a live concert recorded by the BBC at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on October 31, 1985.

"Love" is a song written and performed by John Lennon, originally released in 1970 on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album.

Love is a soundtrack remix album of music recorded by the Beatles, released in November 2006. It features music compiled and remixed as a mashup for the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. The album was produced by George Martin and his son Giles Martin, who said, "What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period."

Love was the third album by Greensburg, Pennsylvania indie-rock band The Juliana Theory released on October 22, 2002 on Epic Records.

Love is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located just to the north of the crater Perepelkin. Prager nearly touches the northeastern rim. To the northwest is Bečvář.

This is an eroded crater formation with several smaller craters along the rim. A chain of three small craters lies across the western rim and inner wall, and a crater cuts across the eastern rim. The inner walls have been worn and their features softened by impacts and possibly ejecta from other craters. The northern portion of the interior floor contains a considerable number of small and tiny craterlets that nearly form a continuous carpet in places. The southern floor is less impacted, with only a few tiny craterlets.

"Love (Destiny)" (stylized as "LOVE ~Destiny~") is a song recorded by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki. It served as the second single from Hamasaki's second studio album Loveppears (1999). It was released by Avex Trax in Japan and Taiwan on April 14, 1999, and through Avex Entertainment Inc. worldwide in September 2008. The track was written by Hamasaki herself, while production was handled by long-time collaborator Max Matsuura. There are three official versions of the single: a ballad version arranged by Tsunku, an edited version featuring vocals by Tsunku, the vocalist of the band Sharan Q, and a dance-influenced version that was included on Loveppears.

Upon its release, "Love (Destiny)" received positive reviews from music critics. Some highlighted the single as one of Hamasaki's best work. Commercially, the single was a success in Japan, reaching number one on the Oricon Singles Chart and TBS' Count Down TV chart, her first record to do so on either charts. It became Hamasaki's first single to sell over 500,000 units, and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of 400,000 units. Due to the single's success, it was re-released as a CD single and entered again on both record charts.

An accompanying music video was directed by Wataru Takeishi, which featured Hamasaki in a large skyscraper singing the song in different areas. To promote the single, it appeared on several remix and greatest hits compilation albums and live concert torus conducted by Hamasaki. It was used as the official theme song for the Japanese television show SemiDouble (1999). To date, it is one of her highest selling singles according to Oricon Style.

Love is a 2005 independent feature film, written, directed and edited by Vladan Nikolic, produced by Jim Stark ( Down by Law, Night on Earth, Factotum) and executive produced by Christoph Thoke ( Tropical Malady). The film was made in New York City for $350,000, with a cast and crew from over 20 countries, with 168 scenes, shot at over 60 locations. The film was shot on mini DV in 20 days, transferred to 35mm film, and received high praise in the September 2005 issue of American Cinematographer for its stylish look.

It impressed audiences and critics at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and the Oldenburg Film Festival. Love also won the Prix De Jeunes at the Cinéma Tout Ecran festival in Geneva, Switzerland. Critics compared the film to Pulp Fiction, Memento, Rashomon, and in its political subtext to Marathon Man and Dirty Pretty Things ( Variety).

Told through a non-linear narrative from each of the characters' points of view, the film reconstructs the stories of a Yugoslav hit man (Sergej Trifunovic), his former lover (Geno Lechner), and her police officer boyfriend (Peter Gevisser), as their paths cross in New York.

"Love" is a song by American R&B recording artist Keyshia Cole. It was written by Greg Curtis and Keyshia Cole and produced by Gregory G. Curtis Sr for her debut album, The Way It Is (2005), released on January 6, 2006 as the album's fifth single, "Love" emerged as the most successful single from the album. It peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and at number three on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, becoming her breakthrough record after a string of modestly successful singles.

Its accompanying music video features R&B singer Tyrese and received heavy play on BET. On the countdown show, 106 and Park, the track retired, making the countdown for 65 days. The video retired from the countdown on 19 April 2006. The single was certified platinum by the RIAA.

Love is the first solo Edyta Bartosiewicz album. However, she doesn't identify herself with the lyrical content as, in her own words, she considers it to be "too womanlike and pastel, and I'm not always like this". It's been recorded entirely in English and has reached gold status in Poland. Although released by Chrisalis for British market, it failed to make an impact on broader audience. Edyta received the Amber Nightingale award at 1992 Sopot Festival for this album, although her performance wasn't favorably received, likely due to English character of the songs, her performing in a Polish Artist category.

Love is an American romantic comedy web television series created by Judd Apatow, Paul Rust, and Lesley Arfin. This show stars Gillian Jacobs and Rust. Netflix has ordered two seasons of the show. The first 10-episode season was made available on February 19, 2016, and a 12-episode second season will premiere in 2017.

The series is a "down-to-earth look at dating," exploring male and female perspectives on romantic relationships through the characters Mickey and Gus, played by Jacobs and Rust respectively.

Love is an album in 1999 by S.E.S.. This is S.E.S.' third Korean album. It sold approximately 780,000 copies. Singles include "Love" and "Twilight Zone".

Love is a 2006 theatrical production by Cirque du Soleil which combines the re-produced and re-imagined music of the Beatles with an interpretive, circus-based artistic and athletic stage performance. The show plays at a specially built theatre at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

A joint venture between Cirque and the Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd, it is the first theatrical production that Apple Corps Ltd. has partnered in. Love is written and directed by Dominic Champagne. Music directors are Sir George Martin, producer of nearly all of the Beatles' records, and his son, record producer Giles Martin. A soundtrack album of the show was released in November 2006.

Love is a 2011 science fiction drama film produced and scored by the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. The film is the directorial debut of filmmaker William Eubank. The film's world-premiere took place on February 2, 2011 at the 26th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the film was later featured in the Seattle International Film Festival, FanTasia 2011, and a number of other festivals around the world. The film was screened in 460 theatres across the United States on August 10, 2011, in the Love Live event.

Love portrays the personal- psychological effects of isolation and loneliness when an astronaut becomes stranded in space and through this, emphasizes the importance of human connection and love. Additionally, it touches on the fragility of humanity's existence (explored through a dying Earth- apocalyptic doomsday scenario) inspired by the cautions of Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot and considers the importance of memories and stories as humanity's legacy.

Love is the third studio album by Mexican singer Thalía, it was released in 1992, under the previously owned Televisa record label, Melody/Fonovisa, which now belongs to Univision Music Group. This album was released in Mexico, some Central-American countries, the United States (with an alternative cover), Spain, Greece and Turkey.

In Mexico, two different versions of 'Love' were released. The first one included only 12 songs. However, as Thalía's soap-opera María Mercedes was turning a big hit, a second version of the album was issued, featuring the Telenovela "soundtrack" as a bonus track.

The album was recorded in Spain and produced by the Spanish producer Luis Carlos Esteban. Photography was in charge of the well-known photographer Adolfo Pérez Butron. It includes four covers, "A la Orilla del Mar" ("At the Seaside"), " La Vie en Rose" ("Life in Pink"), "Cien Años" ("A Hundred Years") and "Nunca Sabrás" ("You'll Never Know").

The album was certified Platinum + Gold in Mexico for 350,000 sold. To celebrate Thalía's 25 anniversary as a solo artist, as for December 2014, this album is available in the digital platforms iTunes and Spotify.

"Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)" is a 1965 pop ballad by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. A rare ballad for the group, whose forte was reportedly uptempo soul dance numbers including " Dancing in the Street" and " Nowhere to Run", the b-side to the group's single, " You've Been in Love Too Long", although the song only peaked at #70 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #22 on the Billboard Hot R&B singles chart, it was number one on many American urban radio playlists. The song, written and produced by Holland–Dozier–Holland, has the narrator explain why love makes her do things she later regrets.

"Love" is the second single from Musiq Soulchild's debut album Aijuswanaseing.

It debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart on December 30, 2000, spent 38 weeks on the chart (its last being September 15, 2001), and peaked at #2.

"Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 on February 17, 2001, spending 22 weeks there, peaking at #24 and falling off on July 7, 2001.

The gospel R&B trio Trin-i-tee 5:7 covered this song in 2002 for their album The Kiss, changing the title to "Lord", making it a gospel song.

(stylized as LOVE) is a fictional female bunny character and singer created by Japanese singer Ai Otsuka. Love was to star in an album originally titled I canChu♥ and a promotional music video from I canChu♥, but the release was changed to a single and titled " Love no Theme" before it was released on April 11, 2007. Otsuka released a second single under Love titled " White Choco" on November 21, 2007. On November 18, 2009, the debut mini-album of Love was released, titled Love It.

Love is an album from DramaGods, a project led by guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. Bettencourt is most remembered for being the guitarist in the band Extreme.

The album was originally released by JVC Victor in Japan and is the first released by the band under the name DramaGods. The band was previously known as Population 1, but changed the name due to legal issues.

The song 'Interface' was later re-recorded for Extreme's album Saudades de Rock.

Arsénio Sebastião Cabungula or Love (born March 14, 1979) is an Angolan footballer. He has been Angolan top scorer twice in 2004 and 2005. He plays as a forward for Petro Luanda in his home country. He has won 3 Girabola titles with ASA.

He is a member of the Angola national team 2 and plays regularly, though usually as a substitute. He was in his country's squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

1º de Agosto striker Arsénio Sebastião Cabungula "Love" is the new reinforcement of Petro de Luanda football team, for the second round of national first division soccer league, also dubbed Girabola2010. The athlete was borrowed by 1º de Agosto to Petro de Luanda for a six-month period, with the contract ending on December 2010. 3

After playing for Kabuscorp, he is currently playing for Recreativo da Caála.

Love (stylized as LØVE) is the second album by Japanese entertainer Mika Nakashima, and her third overall album release counting the mini-album Resistance. Its release date was November 6, 2003, in Japan, prior to the Christmas holiday. In contrast to her previous album, True, this album boasts a wider range of styles including ballads, soft reggae, and club jazz. It proved to be a successful move as the album outsold her debut; it topped the Oricon 200 Album Chart upon release and sold just over 437,000 copies in Japan alone the week it came out.

Love won the 2003 Best Album Award at the Japan Record Awards, and has sold 1,447,681 copies to date - making this album the best-selling album in Mika's career.

Love is a 1971 novel by Angela Carter. Her fifth novel, it follows the destructive love triangle between a psychologically unstable girl, her charming husband, and her volatile brother-in-law. Effectively exploring themes of infidelity, self-loathing, suicide, and emotional disconnection, the novel depicts three characters so alienated from society and reality, that they depend solely on each other. This unhealthy fixation slowly eats away at their individual relationships and themselves, until eventually culminating in despair and tragedy.

Carter's novels Shadow Dance (1966), Several Perceptions (1968) and Love are sometimes referred to as the "Bristol Trilogy".

Love (2003) is the eighth novel written by Toni Morrison. Written in Morrison's non-linear style, the novel tells of the lives of several women and their relationships to the late Bill Cosey.

Love is the story of Bill Cosey, a charismatic but dead hotel owner. Or rather, it is about the people around him, all affected by his life — even long after his death. The main characters are Christine, his granddaughter and Heed, his widow. The two are the same age and used to be friends but some forty years after Cosey's death they are sworn enemies, and yet share his mansion. Again Morrison used split narrative and jumps back and forth throughout the story, not fully unfolding until the very end. The characters in the novel all have some relation to the infamous Bill Cosey.

Similar to the concept of communication between the living and the dead in Beloved, Morrison introduced a character named Junior; she was the medium to connect the dead Bill Cosey to the world of the living.

The storytelling techniques in Love, namely the split narrative, suggest a recent trend in Morrison's literature that divides the plot among different time periods.

THEMES: - Love (in different forms)

Category:Novels by Toni Morrison Category:2003 American novels

Love ( 1927) is a silent film directed by Edmund Goulding and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM made the film in order to capitalize on its winning romantic team of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert who had starred in the 1926 blockbuster, Flesh and the Devil.

Taking full advantage of the star power, a drama was scripted based on Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel, Anna Karenina. The result was a failure for the author's purists, but it provided the public with a taste of Gilbert-Garbo eroticism that would never again be matched. The publicity campaign for the film was one of the largest up to that time, and the title was changed from the original, Heat.

Director Dimitri Buchowetzki began work on Love with Garbo and Ricardo Cortez. However, producer Irving Thalberg was unhappy with the early filming, and started over by replacing Buchowetzki with Edmund Goulding, cinematographer Merritt B. Gerstad with William H. Daniels, and Cortez with Gilbert.

Love is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Prints of the film survive in collections.

Love is the fifth compilation album (ninth overall & K-Ci's tenth overall, which he released My Book in 2006 as a solo artist) by K-Ci & JoJo. It was released in Japan only on February 6, 2008, by Formula Recordings.

Love is a 2008 Indonesian romance film directed by Kabir Bhatia as a remake of the 2006 film Cinta. The film marked the last appearance of actor Sophan Sophiaan before his death in 2008. Sophiaan appeared opposite his real-life wife, Widyawati.

Love is the third album by Scottish group Aztec Camera, released in November 1987 on the WEA label.

Love was something of a stylistic departure for the group. Various big-name producers were involved in the recording of the album which, with its radio-friendly hooks and glossy production values was an attempt to break the group in the American market. It failed to do so, but did become Aztec Camera's most commercially successful album in the United Kingdom, where it reached No. 10 on the albums chart. The single " Somewhere In My Heart" was also the group's most successful, peaking at No. 3.

Love is a 1971 Hungarian drama film directed by Károly Makk. Based on two short stories by Tibor Déry, Szerelem (1956) and Két asszony (1962), it stars Lili Darvas and Mari Törőcsik. The film was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Today, Love is considered a classic of world cinema by critics including Derek Malcolm and Roger Ebert. The film was selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

"Love" is a song from Walt Disney's film Robin Hood with the lyrics and music by Floyd Huddleston and George Bruns. The lyrics were sung by Huddleston's then-wife Nancy Adams over Monica Evans who voiced Maid Marian for the rest of the film.

The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1974, but lost to " The Way We Were" from the film of the same name.

The song was also used in the soundtrack for the 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox, directed by Wes Anderson.

LOVE is an iconic Pop Art image by American artist Robert Indiana. It consists of the letters LO over the letters VE; the O is canted sideways so that its oblong negative space creates a line leading to the V. The original image, with green and blue spaces backing red lettering, served as a print image for a Museum of Modern Art Christmas card in 1964. In much this same form the design soon graced a popular US postage stamp.

LOVEs original rendering in sculpture was made in 1970 and is displayed in Indiana at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The material is COR-TEN steel. Indiana's LOVE design has since been reproduced in a variety of formats for rendering in displays around the world.

'Love ' ( 2008) is a Bengali film by Indian director Riingo Banerjee, and based upon Love Story by Erich Segal.

Love is the third studio album from Christian rock band Inhabited. It was released in the United States on February 26, 2008, through the 7Spin Music label. Three songs have been released as radio singles: "Love (I Need You)", "I Want to Know" and "Hush", which charted in the top 10 on Christian CHR music charts (according to Radio and Records magazine).

"Love (Can Make You Happy)" is a song written by Jack Sigler, Jr. and performed by Mercy. It reached #2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboards Easy Listening chart in 1969. The song also reached No. 2 on Canada's RPM 100, and No. 1 on RPMs Adult Contemporary chart.

The song was ranked #42 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1969.

"Love", known by its Lithuanian name' "Pasiklydęs žmogus"' (The Lost Man) is a song by Lithuanian singer Sasha Son, the Lithuanian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, where it was performed in English with the final verse in Russian.

The song competed in the second semi-final on 14 May 2009 and qualified for the final, where it tied with the Spanish entry, coming in 23rd with 23 points.

"Love (Winter Song)" is the fourth major-label physical single by Japanese soul singer Miho Fukuhara, and was released on December 10, 2008. The song received much success and is currently Fukuhara's top selling and top peaking single on the Oricon charts. It was used as the drama Scandal's theme song.

Love is the third studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was released on February 12, 2010 on Fuel TV, and on February 14 on Modlife. The album was released free of charge due to " corporate underwriting". A "special edition" hard copy version of the album was scheduled for release on March 22, 2011, along with a second disc containing new music from the band. This was announced at a Q & A for the movie, which stated that it would be pushed back to Fall of 2011.

Love is a 1963 studio album by Rosemary Clooney, arranged by Nelson Riddle.

Clooney and Riddle were having an affair at the time of the recording, and this was the second album that Riddle had arranged for Clooney. They recorded Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle! in 1960 for RCA Victor Records, and the songs that make up Love were recorded the same year. RCA Victor didn't release Love at the time, and Frank Sinatra bought the master tapes for Love from RCA when he signed Clooney to his record label, Reprise Records in 1963.

Love is a lost American 1920 silent era romance drama film starring Louise Glaum, James Kirkwood, and Joseph Kilgour. Directed by Wesley Ruggles and produced by J. Parker Read, Jr., the screenplay was adapted by Louis Joseph Vance based on a story by Carol Kapleau.

Love is the fourth studio album by San Francisco-based punk rock band, Flipper. The album was released over 16 years after their last studio album, American Grafishy, which was released in 1993. Love is the only Flipper studio album to date to feature former member Krist Novoselic and recording sessions took place at Murky Slough Studios, Novoselic's property in Washington.

The album has been referred to as an "evil twin" to the accompanying live album, Fight, which was recorded live during the band's performances in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Jack Endino recorded and produced both albums. Both albums were released on CD and digital download on May 19, 2009 and prior to the release, the album was also available for stream.

The cover art uses a font — available freely on the internet under the name "Crass" — extremely similar to the one Crass used on all of their releases.

Love is a 2009 covers album by R&B group Boyz II Men. Like their previous album, it was produced by American Idol's Randy Jackson and Boyz II Men. This is their third cover album, following Throwback, Vol. 1 and Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA, which were released in 2004 and 2007 respectively. The album is composed of popular love songs of the past. It also features a collaboration with Michael Bublé. The demo version of " Back for Good" was originally recorded with Irish singer, Nadine Coyle. The album sold 15,000 copies its first week.

"Love" is a song by Romanian dance/pop vocalist Inna extracted from her debut studio album entitled Hot (2009). It was written and produced by native dance music trio Play & Win and acts as the second single release from her album. "Love" was released and promoted in various European countries by Roton and Ultra Records. The "Play & Win Radio Edit" acted as the official version of the song in several countries.

While "Love" contains elements of eurodance, its lyrics evoke a meaning of how complicated situations of love can become. The single has garnered success for Inna in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Romania where it became her second consecutive top-twenty hit. "Love" was released as Inna's third single in the Netherlands after rumours that " 10 Minutes", her fifth single overall, would be released first.

Love is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Eskil Steenberg. Unlike most such games, the content in Love is almost entirely procedurally generated. Another major difference is that there are no pre-determined quests; instead, the gameplay is emergent from the interactions of players with each other, with NPCs and the environment. Love uses skill-based progression and any benefits gained from defeating NPC enemies apply to all players from the same settlement.

The graphics style of Love is painterly and impressionistic, using relatively simple geometric objects and then adding dynamic details via textured fan polygons and fullscreen filters. In an interview with Jim Rossignol of Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Eskil explained his reasoning behind this style, stating that 'any game you make should clear the "flick through a magazine" test. When you flick through a magazine you should instantly recognize the game'.

Love makes use of the Verse protocol, a network protocol allowing for real-time transfer and synchronisation of 3D graphics and audio data.

Love is a Japanese pop/R&B vocal duo, produced by Hiro of Exile's production agency, LDH. They debuted in 2009 with the single "First Love: Love Letter." Their song "Tada Hitotsu no Negai Sae" was certified gold by the RIAJ for 100,000 full-length cellphone downloads.

The band's name comes from the first word in their production company ( LDH)'s non-acronym name (Love Dream Happiness).

LOVE is an artwork by American artist Robert Indiana, located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States. It was created in 1970 as the first sculptural form of the artist's famous LOVE painting and has been on continuous exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art since it was acquired in 1975.

Love is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Love is a 2012 Taiwanese film, directed by Doze Niu. It stars mainland's celebrity actress Zhao Wei and Taiwan's award winning actress Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Ethan Juan, Eddie Peng, Amber Kuo, Ivy Chen. Love premiered at "Panorama" of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Similar to the British film Love Actually, Love is a romantic comedy featuring an ensemble cast of actors whose romantic stories are revealed to be interwoven as the plot progresses.

Love (stylized as LOVE) is the third mini-album by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki. It was released on 8 November 2012 in three editions: CD+DVD, CD-Only and a limited Tales of Xillia 2 Edition.

Love's track-list is formatted similarly to Hamasaki's singles, including remixes and instrumentals, which was different on how she present her mini-albums in the past.

Love is the ninth studio album by Cloud Cult, released on March 5, 2013.

MTV compared the album's first single, "Good Friend," to Polyphonic Spree, Arcade Fire, and Weezer.

Love, or more uncommon Lowe, is a Swedish version of the French name Louis. It can also be a version of Lovisa, and can thus be used both for men and women, although it is more common with men.

The name is uncommon amongst adults; there are less than 200 men older than 30 in Sweden with the name, but several hundreds from every cohort born in the 1990s. 31 December 2009, there was in total 6,058 men in Sweden with the name Love/Lowe, of which 2,953 had it as first name, the rest as middle name. There were also 531 women with the name, of which 128 had it as their given name.

In 2003, 344 boys got the name, and of those, 182 got it as given name. The same year, 24 girls got the name, of which 6 got it as given name.

The name day in Sweden is 2 October (1986-1992: 3 December; 1993-2000: 26 November).

"Love (Is All We Need)" is a song recorded by British DJ Adam J, and features Sugababes' Amelle Berrabah and production team The Nightcrashers. It was released on 19 August 2013, Berrabah's first solo release since her collaboration with Tinchy Stryder on his single Never Leave You back in 2009. The song was released as Adam J's single, but the song itself only features Amelle's vocals, and is believed to be featured on her upcoming debut solo album which is expected to be released after another two singles. The song failed to chart.

LOVE is a bi-annual British style magazine founded in 2009 by stylist and fashion journalist Katie Grand, who remains editor-in-chief. Since 2012, Lulu Kennedy has been editor-at-large and Alex Fury has been editor of this Condé Nast publication. Suzanne Weinstock of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism described the magazine this way in 2010:

Despite its glossy pages, the magazine has a raw look. Black-and-white photography dominates, and most of the color photography has a muted palette, as if the pictures have aged and faded. Some images are clearly fashion photography; others are more like inventive snapshots. Nudity is plentiful in many styles, from the grittily pornographic to the breathtakingly artistic.

The first cover in 2009 featured American singer-songwriter Beth Ditto, naked. Later covers have featured Kate Moss, Lea T, Justin Bieber, and even (for the tenth issue) Minnie Mouse.

Love (stylized as LOVE) is the twelfth studio album of the Japanese boy band Arashi. The album was released on October 23, 2013 under their record label J Storm in two editions: a limited edition and a regular edition. The regular edition comes with a 32-page photo lyrics booklet, while the limited edition comes with a 60-page photo lyrics booklet and a bonus DVD with a music video for "P・A・R・A・D・O・X". The album sold over 670,000 copies in its first week and became the best-selling album of 2013 in Japan.

Love is a 2004 Indian Kannada romantic film directed, produced and written by Rajendra Singh Babu. The film stars debutant Aditya and Rakshita in the lead roles along with some veteran Indian actors such as Amrish Puri and Kota Srinivasa Rao in other prominent roles. Mohanlal made a guest appearance in the movie which marked his debut in Kannada. The film was dubbed and released in Telugu as "Prema Nagar" and in Malayalam as "Hey Taxi".

The film features soundtrack composed by veteran Bollywood composer Anu Malik marking his debut in Kannada cinema. A. R. Rahman's airtel jingle was used in the movie.

Love is a studio album by Amen Dunes.

"Love" is a song by American progressive house and electro house artist Dj Trevi. The Song was featured in the documentary Gay Latino Los Angeles: Coming of Age. A radio and extended version were re-released on Dec 8th, 2012.

"Love" is a song recorded by American country music artist Jana Kramer. It was released in June 2014 as the first single from her second studio album. The song was written by Catt Gravitt and Jimmy Robbins.

Love is a 2015 French 3D erotic romantic drama film written and directed by Gaspar Noé. The film marked Noe's fourth directorial venture after a gap of five years.

Love is the second full-length studio album by South Korean girl group Girl's Day. It was released on July 7, 2015. The title track, "Ring My Bell", was used to promote the album.

Love'' (German:Liebe'') is a 1927 German silent film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Agnes Esterhazy and Elza Temary.