"hold a candle for" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds a candle for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding a candle for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held a candle for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held a candle for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> a candle for"
      },
      "expansion": "hold a candle for (third-person singular simple present holds a candle for, present participle holding a candle for, simple past and past participle held a candle for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Rachael Johns, Tease Me, Cowboy",
          "text": "Despite Dawson now having the starring role, she still held a candle for her celebrity crush.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 47",
          "text": "Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To feel romantic attraction for."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_a_candle_for-en-verb-suFC0Spp",
      "links": [
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ],
        [
          "attraction",
          "attraction"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hold a candle"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hold a torch for"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold a candle for"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds a candle for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding a candle for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held a candle for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held a candle for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> a candle for"
      },
      "expansion": "hold a candle for (third-person singular simple present holds a candle for, present participle holding a candle for, simple past and past participle held a candle for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hold a candle"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Rachael Johns, Tease Me, Cowboy",
          "text": "Despite Dawson now having the starring role, she still held a candle for her celebrity crush.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 47",
          "text": "Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To feel romantic attraction for."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ],
        [
          "attraction",
          "attraction"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hold a torch for"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold a candle for"
}