"luv" meaning in English

See luv in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /lʌv/ Audio: en-us-love.ogg [US] Forms: luvs [plural], luvz [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌv Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|luvz}} luv (countable and uncountable, plural luvs or luvz)
  1. Deliberate misspelling of love. Tags: alt-of, countable, deliberate, misspelling, uncountable Alternative form of: love
    Sense id: en-luv-en-noun-lTq-YXaE

Verb

IPA: /lʌv/ Audio: en-us-love.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ʌv Head templates: {{en-verb|~z,luvs|~ing,luvving|~d,luved,luvved}} luv (third-person singular simple present luvz or luvs, present participle luving or luvving, simple past and past participle luvd or luved or luvved) Forms: luvz [present, singular, third-person], luvs [present, singular, third-person], luving [participle, present], luvving [participle, present], luvd [participle, past], luvd [past], luved [participle, past], luved [past], luvved [participle, past], luvved [past]
  1. (Internet slang or text messaging) Alternative form of love. Tags: Internet, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: love Derived forms: luvd, luver, luvver, luving, luvpig, luvluvpig, luvz, luvs Related terms: love, lurv, lurve, luvvy, luvvie, wuv
    Sense id: en-luv-en-verb-sBvDtzHV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84

Inflected forms

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "luvs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvz",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "luvz"
      },
      "expansion": "luv (countable and uncountable, plural luvs or luvz)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "love"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Deliberate misspelling of love."
      ],
      "id": "en-luv-en-noun-lTq-YXaE",
      "links": [
        [
          "love",
          "love#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "deliberate",
        "misspelling",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lʌv/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-love.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/En-us-love.ogg/En-us-love.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/En-us-love.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌv"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "love"
    }
  ],
  "word": "luv"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "luvz",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvd",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvd",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~z,luvs",
        "2": "~ing,luvving",
        "3": "~d,luved,luvved"
      },
      "expansion": "luv (third-person singular simple present luvz or luvs, present participle luving or luvving, simple past and past participle luvd or luved or luvved)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "love"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "luvd"
        },
        {
          "word": "luver"
        },
        {
          "word": "luvver"
        },
        {
          "word": "luving"
        },
        {
          "word": "luvpig"
        },
        {
          "word": "luvluvpig"
        },
        {
          "word": "luvz"
        },
        {
          "word": "luvs"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "i luv you"
        },
        {
          "text": "she luvz it"
        },
        {
          "text": "we luvd it"
        },
        {
          "text": "you are luving it"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of love."
      ],
      "id": "en-luv-en-verb-sBvDtzHV",
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "text messaging",
          "text messaging"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang or text messaging) Alternative form of love."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "love"
        },
        {
          "word": "lurv"
        },
        {
          "word": "lurve"
        },
        {
          "word": "luvvy"
        },
        {
          "word": "luvvie"
        },
        {
          "word": "wuv"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lʌv/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-love.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/En-us-love.ogg/En-us-love.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/En-us-love.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌv"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "love"
    }
  ],
  "word": "luv"
}
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌv",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌv/1 syllable",
    "White Hmong adjectives",
    "White Hmong entries with incorrect language header",
    "White Hmong lemmas",
    "White Hmong terms derived from Proto-Hmongic",
    "White Hmong terms inherited from Proto-Hmongic",
    "White Hmong terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "White Hmong verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "luvs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvz",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "luvz"
      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "love"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English deliberate misspellings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deliberate misspelling of love."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "love",
          "love#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "deliberate",
        "misspelling",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lʌv/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-love.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/En-us-love.ogg/En-us-love.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/En-us-love.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌv"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "love"
    }
  ],
  "word": "luv"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
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    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
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    "Rhymes:English/ʌv/1 syllable",
    "White Hmong adjectives",
    "White Hmong entries with incorrect language header",
    "White Hmong lemmas",
    "White Hmong terms derived from Proto-Hmongic",
    "White Hmong terms inherited from Proto-Hmongic",
    "White Hmong terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "White Hmong verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "luvd"
    },
    {
      "word": "luver"
    },
    {
      "word": "luvver"
    },
    {
      "word": "luving"
    },
    {
      "word": "luvpig"
    },
    {
      "word": "luvluvpig"
    },
    {
      "word": "luvz"
    },
    {
      "word": "luvs"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "luvz",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvd",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvd",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luvved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~z,luvs",
        "2": "~ing,luvving",
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "love"
    },
    {
      "word": "lurv"
    },
    {
      "word": "lurve"
    },
    {
      "word": "luvvy"
    },
    {
      "word": "luvvie"
    },
    {
      "word": "wuv"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "love"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English internet slang",
        "English text messaging slang"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "i luv you"
        },
        {
          "text": "she luvz it"
        },
        {
          "text": "we luvd it"
        },
        {
          "text": "you are luving it"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of love."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "text messaging",
          "text messaging"
        ],
        [
          "love",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang or text messaging) Alternative form of love."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lʌv/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-love.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/En-us-love.ogg/En-us-love.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/En-us-love.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌv"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "love"
    }
  ],
  "word": "luv"
}

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