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love-knot

love-knot is the alternative form of love knot.

Meaning of love knot

Noun

love knot (plural love knots)

  1. A knot or bow, as of ribbon.
    • They kept up the Christmas carol, sent true love-knots on Valentine morning, eat pancakes on Shrove-tide, shewed their wit on the first of April, and religiously cracked nuts on Michaelmas eve.1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield

Forms of love-knot

plurallove-knots

Questions about love-knot

What is love-knot the alternative form of?
Love-knot is the alternative form of love knot.

Words near love-knot in the dictionary

  1. love-in-a-mist
  2. love-in-idleness
  3. love-in-winter
  4. love-ins
  5. love-joust
  6. love-knot
  7. love-knots
  8. love-lies-bleeding
  9. love-light
  10. love-lights
  11. love-lock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: love-knot (page history and authors); love knot (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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