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lovelight

lovelight noun: a fond expression of love in a person's eyes.

Noun

lovelight (countable and uncountable, plural lovelights)

  1. A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
    • Her hands folded tightly together across her brow, she looked the very embodiment of reverent expectation, and the blushing roses on her cheeks, the lovelight in her eyes seemed to deepen for an instant, and then pale slightly[…]1903, L. P. Gratacap, The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars, page 85
    • Her face was suffused with the glory of love's transfiguration: the red light of the sunset had not been more obvious in her eyes than was now the lovelight that replaced it.1909?, Ambrose Bierce, In the Midst of Life (page 89)

Forms of lovelight

plurallovelights

Origin of lovelight

From love + light.

Questions about lovelight

What does lovelight mean?
Lovelight means a fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
What part of speech is lovelight?
Lovelight is a noun.
What is the plural of lovelight?
The plural of lovelight is lovelights.

Words near lovelight in the dictionary

  1. loveliest
  2. lovelified
  3. lovelifies
  4. lovelify
  5. lovelifying
  6. lovelight
  7. lovelights
  8. lovelihead
  9. lovelike
  10. lovelily
  11. loveliness

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