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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One's beloved; a sweetheart.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One truly loved or loving; one whose love is pledged to another; a sweetheart.
  • noun A plant of Europe and temperate Asia, Paris quadrifolia: so named because its four leaves are set together in the form of a heraldic true-love knot. Also herb-truelove. See herb-paris and Paris.
  • noun A condiment for sweetening the breath.
  • noun An ornament, probably shaped like a true-love knot.
  • Indicating genuine love; affectionate; sincere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One really beloved.
  • noun (Bot.) A plant. See Paris.
  • noun An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
  • noun a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who is truly beloved; a true love.
  • noun botany A plant, Paris quadrifolia.
  • noun obsolete, nonce word An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, possibly an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person loved by another person

Etymologies

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true +‎ love

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