flirt
flirting
flirtation
coquetry
dalliance toying | playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest |
gala
gala affair
jamboree
blowout | a gay festivity |
labor of love
labour of love | productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation |
sexual love
lovemaking
making love
love
love life | 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 |
extramarital sex
free love | sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another |
agape
love feast | a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship |
| love match | a marriage for love's sake, not an arranged marriage |
| cupboard love | a show of affection motivated by selfishness |
love knot
lovers' knot
lover's knot
true lovers' knot
true lover's knot | a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love |
love seat
loveseat
tete-a-tete
vis-a-vis | small sofa that seats two people |
| love-token | keepsake given as a token of love |
self-love
narcism
narcissism | an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself, self-love that shut out everyone else |
charity
brotherly love | a kindly and lenient attitude toward people |
spare tire
love handle | excess fat around the waistline |
| courtly love | (Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers |
matter affair
thing | a vaguely specified concern, several matters to attend to, it is none of your affair, things are going well |
love
passion | any object of warm affection or devotion, the theater was her first love, he has a passion for cock fighting, |
love story
romance | a story dealing with love |
love letter
billet doux | a personal letter to a loved one expressing affection |
love song
love-song | a song about love or expressing love for another person |
| love lyric | the lyric of a love song |
affair
occasion social occasion
function
social function | a vaguely specified social event, the party was quite an affair, an occasion arranged to honor the president, a seemingly endless round of social functions |
love sexual love
erotic love | a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction, their love left them indifferent to their surroundings, she was his first love |
amour propre
conceit
self-love
vanity | feelings of excessive pride |
| love | a strong positive emotion of regard and affection, his love for his work, children need a lot of love |
agape
agape love | selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature) |
| filial love | the love of a child for a parent |
puppy love
calf love
crush
infatuation | temporary love of an adolescent |
philter
philtre
love-potion
love-philter
love-philtre | a drink credited with magical power, can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it |
| love feast | a social gathering intended to create goodwill among the participants |
social gathering
social affair | a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship |
Philadelphia
City of Brotherly Love | the largest city in Pennsylvania, located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river, site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed, site of the University of Pennsylvania |
bastard by-blow
love child
illegitimate child
illegitimate
whoreson | the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
beloved
dear
dearest
honey
love | a beloved person, used as terms of endearment |
light-o'-love
light-of-love | a woman inconstant in love |
| love-in-a-mist Nigella damascena | European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers |
| snow-in-summer love-in-a-mist Cerastium tomentosum | chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers |
love-lies-bleeding
velvet flower
tassel flower Amaranthus caudatus | young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables, seeds used as cereal |
common wormwood
absinthe
old man
lad's love
Artemisia absinthium | aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe |
love grass
bay grass | any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis, specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion |
weeping love grass
African love grass
Eragrostis curvula | perennial South African grass having densely clumped flimsy stems, introduced into United States especially for erosion control |
love-in-winter
western prince's pine
Chimaphila umbellata
Chimaphila corymbosa | Eurasian herb with white or pinkish flowers in a terminal corymb |
love-in-a-mist running pop
wild water lemon
Passiflora foetida | tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts, stems malodorous when crushed |
wild pansy
Johnny-jump-up heartsease love-in-idleness
pink of my John
Viola tricolor | a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived |
Judas tree
love tree
Circis siliquastrum | small tree of the eastern Mediterranean having abundant purplished flowers growing on old wood directly from stems and appearing before the leaves: widely cultivated in mild regions, wood valuable for veneers |
love vine
Cuscuta gronovii | leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax |
tomato
love apple
tomato plant
Lycopersicon esculentum | native to South America, widely cultivated in many varieties |
| love | a score of zero in tennis or squash, it waslove |
line of heart
heart line
love line
mensal line | a crease on the palm, palmists say it indicates your emotional nature |
love affair
romance | a relationship between two lovers |