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lurve

UK/lɜːv/US/lɝv/

lurve noun: love, fondness.

Noun

lurve (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Love, fondness.

Verb

lurve (third-person singular simple present lurves, present participle lurving, simple past and past participle lurved)

  1. (informal) To love; to like a lot.

lurve meaning in Bengali

lurve in Bengali

ভালোবাসা, অনুরাগ, খুব পছন্দ করা

Forms of lurve

third-person singular presentlurves
present participlelurving
past participlelurved
pastlurved

Origin of lurve

From an expressively lengthened pronunciation of love ([lʌːv]~[lɜːv]~[lɐːv]). The spelling is based on non-rhotic English.

Words that rhyme with lurve

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about lurve

What does lurve mean?
Lurve means love, fondness.
What is lurve in Bengali?
Lurve in Bengali is ভালোবাসা, অনুরাগ, খুব পছন্দ করা. See Lurve meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is lurve?
Lurve can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce lurve?
Lurve is pronounced /lɜːv/ (UK).

Words near lurve in the dictionary

  1. lurt
  2. lurtotecan
  3. lurts
  4. Lurty
  5. lurv
  6. lurve
  7. lurved
  8. lurvely
  9. lurves
  10. Lurvey
  11. Lurveys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lurve (page history and authors); lurve (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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