love song
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1.4
- noun
- /lʌv sɔŋ/
:
canción de amor
- He wrote a beautiful love song to express his feelings for her.
- sing love songs
What kind of love songs do you write more of?
- What kind of love songs do you write more of?
- Second of all, they've made all these like love songs to Trump.
- If it's like we go through all these scenarios where it, it forces us into this sad love song of right person, wrong time.
- And to be helping bring R&B; back, you revive one of the artists that's really reviving true R&B;, bringing back love songs, bringing back deals.
- Loving, he says, does not at first mean, as love songs tell us, merging, surrendering and uniting with another person.
Examples
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I wrote you a love song and I tried to make it beautiful.
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One of the men, standing guard beneath the mistletoe, played lonesome love songs on a mouth harp.
Fiction book (1996) -
What kind of love songs do you write more of?
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I always like your love songs.
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Do you have to be in love to write a love song?
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Maybe he needs a nice love song from the heart with spirit and soul...
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm having a real hard time with love songs right now.
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There's a concert of love songs next month.
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For a romantic mood, slow ballads or love songs are on the playlists.
Blog text (4) -
A weekly two-hour spot which would combine love songs with advice to the lovelorn.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
2
7.0
A sad song about love that is not returned
How Romantic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a song about love or expressing romantic feelings' is directly and transparently derived from the combination of 'love' (romantic affection) and 'song' (a piece of music with lyrics). This noun–noun compound follows a common compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Love song is a simple compound made from love, meaning a romantic feeling, and song, meaning a short piece of music. Imagine a singer telling someone how they feel. That's why a love song is a song that 'expresses romantic feelings'.