"true love" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: true loves [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} true love (countable and uncountable, plural true loves)
  1. (uncountable) The form of romantic affection that is considered pure and wholly positive, not just based on feelings of lust and sex. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Love, People Translations (romantic affection): 真愛 (Chinese Mandarin), 真爱 (zhēn'ài) (Chinese Mandarin), todellinen rakkaus (Finnish), wahre Liebe [feminine] (German), amor de verdade [masculine] (Portuguese), amor verdadeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), verdadeiro amor [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-true_love-en-noun-IWzckEBi Disambiguation of Love: 43 21 16 20 Disambiguation of People: 19 39 33 10 Disambiguation of 'romantic affection': 64 26 5 5
  2. (countable) The unique individual for whom one feels such affection. Tags: countable Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-true_love-en-noun-XWF-wIgx Disambiguation of People: 19 39 33 10
  3. (countable) A thing for which an individual feels an intense love. Tags: countable Categories (topical): People Derived forms: true-love-knot, the course of true love never did run smooth Translations (thing): 真愛 (Chinese Mandarin), 真爱 (zhēn'ài) (Chinese Mandarin), todellinen rakkaus (Finnish), amor de verdade [masculine] (Portuguese), amor verdadeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), verdadeiro amor [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-true_love-en-noun-h~nc2m0G Disambiguation of People: 19 39 33 10 Disambiguation of 'thing': 0 0 100 0
  4. (uncountable) The situation in which a couple is perfectly compatible and there is no better relationship, as set by a greater force such as God or fate. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-true_love-en-noun-PEnSvZn9 Disambiguation of People: 19 39 33 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 7 11 46 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 11 11 55 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 22 10 10 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (individual): 真愛 (Chinese Mandarin), 真爱 (zhēn'ài) (Chinese Mandarin), todellinen rakkaus (Finnish), amor de verdade [masculine] (Portuguese), amor verdadeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), verdadeiro amor [masculine] (Portuguese)
Disambiguation of 'individual': 4 51 42 3

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