Dictionary Entry

loved

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/lʌvd/Used In Literature ↓

(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

In a Sentence

“I love my spouse. I love you!”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. lovedones lovedone lovedloved always

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Poetry examples for “loved”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

As ’e can’t ’ear me? Not the word I’d say
To tell ’e how I loved ’e?
Ah, now I be in ’ell, I be in ’ell!

Ah, let not only mine be vain,
For lovers should be loved again.

A Grecian lad, as I hear tell,
One that many loved in vain,
Looked into a forest well

Men loved unkindness then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;

A Grecian lad, as I hear tell,
One that many loved in vain,
Looked into a forest well

Plu--Plutarch, what's his name that writes his life?
Tells us, that Cato dearly loved his wife:
Yet if a friend, a night or so, should need her,

What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame.
How loved, how honour'd once, avails thee not,
To whom related, or by whom begot;

But why should Hough desire translation,
Loved and esteem'd by all the nation?
Yet, if it be the old man's case,

Each heavenly piece unwearied we compare,
Match Raphael's grace with thy loved Guide's air,
Carracci's strength, Correggio's softer line,

Such were the notes thy once-loved Poet sung,
Till Death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.