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loave

loave is the alternative form of lofe.

Meaning of lofe

Noun

lofe (plural lofes)

  1. (Northern England, West-Midlands) An offer; choice; an opportunity; chance.
    • "Yance I hed t' lofe an' I'd luck to say no, an' I niver hed t' lofe ageàn."—Said by an elderly spinster.1869, Alexander Craig Gibson, The Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent, page 212

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Forms of loave

Noun
pluralloaves
Verb
third-person singular presentloaves
present participleloaving
past participleloaved
pastloaved

Origin of loave

From Middle English lof, from Old English lof (“praise, glory, repute”). More at lofe.

From Middle English loven, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”). More at lofe, love (Etymology 2).

Questions about loave

What is loave the alternative form of?
Loave is the alternative form of lofe.

Words near loave in the dictionary

  1. loathsomely
  2. loathsomeness
  3. loathsomenesses
  4. loathy
  5. Loatuko
  6. loave
  7. loaved
  8. loaver
  9. loaves
  10. loaves of bread
  11. loaving

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loave (page history and authors); lofe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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